Quotes About Judgment

Many people, conservatives point out, grow up in dismal social conditions yet become law-abiding citizens. This is rather like arguing that because some smokers don't die of cancer, nobody who smokes dies of cancer.

The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to judge right from wrong, to value all life, is only possible through our ability to reason. Reason is what powers morality.

There are times when there is no choice but to act immediately; even then it must be with your best judgment, using all your experience and everything you do know.

Appearance, after all, was a reflection of what a person thought of themselves and therefore, by extension, of others.

it's easier to feel shame if those guilty are centuries dead, especially when such discrediting, by default, confers upon yourself a higher moral standard without having to stand the test in the true environment of the time.

Zedd had taught him that the creator was simply another name for the force of balance in all things, and not some wise man sitting in judgment.

Avoir de la compassion pour les coupables revient à trahir les innocents.

Every murderer thinks the victim needed killing.

The man stuck his head around the woman. "My name's Richard. What's yours?" She liked his eyes. "Rachel." "Rachel. That's a pretty name. But I have to tell you, Rachel, you have the ugliest hair I've ever seen." "Richard!" the woman squawked. "How could you say such a thing!" "Well, it's true. Who cut it all crooked like that, Rachel, some old witch?" Rachel giggled.

Rachel kept an eye toward the woman, fearing a slap. He looked over, too. He pointed with the scissors. "This is Kahlan. She scared me at first, too. She's awfully ugly, isn't she.

Wizard's Third Rule: Passion rules reason.

A civilization must have laws, but there cannot be justice when a man with no conscience metes out sentences without compassion or mercy.

confused elitist. She thinks the kind of car you drive defines you, along with your zip code.

Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.

The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

Good and bad is tricky, she said. I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

There was something about the eyes. It wasn't the shape or the color. The was no evil glint. But there was… … a look. It was such a look that a microbe might encounter if it could see up from the bottom end of the microscope. It said: You are nothing. It said: You are flawed, you have no value. It said: You are animal. It said: Perhaps you may be a pet, or perhaps you may be a quarry. It said: And the choice is not yours.

Everything is a test.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.