Quotes About Judgment

The ability to compare, and to evaluate, other human beings was the fountainhead of human unhappiness...

Whether or not true free will exists, virtually all human beings act as if it does, and evaluate each other on the basis of their ability to make what they believe to be genuine moral choices.

When morality is reduced to personal tastes, people exchange the moral question, What is good? for the pleasure question, What feels good?

There are two kinds of oughts, and there are two ways to be wrong about something. We can be wrong by being irrational, or we can be wrong by being unethical. Morality deals with the second.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on;Judge not the play before the play is done:Her plot hath many changes; every daySpeaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot has many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

When we proclaim that someone is subhuman, we not only remove for them the possibility of change and repentance, we also remove from them moral responsibility.

Quién los jueces con pasión, sin ser ungüento hace humanos, pues untándoles las manos les ablanda el corazón?

Y porque no lo tengan por maricón, ahaje ese cuello y agobie de espaldas; la capa caída, que siempre nosotros andamos de capa caída; ese hocico, de tornillo: gestos a un lado y a otro; y haga vucé de las g, h y de las h, g. Diga conmigo: gerida, mogino, jumo, pahería, mohar, habalí y harro de vino.

The definitions of ourselves, of others and of everything that surrounds us prevent us from being and understanding who we are, keeping us prisoners of a separate reality based on definitions. We define ourselves and others incessantly with words, judgments, labels based on appearance, age, sex, race, culture, income, intelligence, character, etc. Who are you and who are others beyond their definitions? Please do not answer!

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)

Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.

God said: GOD MADE YOU. GOD DOES NOT CARE IF YOU ARE "GUILTY" OR NOT. I said: I CARE IF I AM GUILTY! I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!... God was silent. Everything was SILENT.

We live in a hell of opinions.

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

Indeed, some of the Icelandic officials were convinced that Spassky was the better player and that he was going to defeat Fischer rather easily anyway. At the commencement of the match, they were privately expecting to see Fischer humiliated on the board.

Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

The earliest Christian view was that the dead in Christ await the resurrection when Christ comes again in glory to judge the living and the dead.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.