J Quotes
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“Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.”
Source: Lectures on Modern History: Great Event
“Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you do not have to fight.”
“Judge tenderly of me.”
“Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.”
“Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.”
“Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle”
“Judge the powerful by their actions, not their rhetoric; by their deeds, not their words. If democracy is so desirable and wonderful, why aren’t markets, CEOs, managers, bankers, entrepreneurs, monarchs, religious leaders, media moguls, and so on, democratically elected? If they’re not, those in charge don’t rate democracy at all but are advocates of something utterly different. To what is that those who rule us actually subscribe? It’s authoritarian, dictatorial plutocracy – rule by the entrenched, rich elites. That’s the principle by which the world is truly run. Democracy is just a stage show for the marks and suckers, the gullible sheeple that have been so dumbed down that they believe every lie the rich sell them.”
Source: All the Rest is Propaganda
“Judge the spirit of the prophecy before you judge the truth of the word.”
“Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.”
“Judge us on the quality of our products, and not the quantity of our paperwork.”
“Judge Woodward envisioned the new Detroit as an urban Arcadia of interlocking hexagons. Each wheel was to be separate yet united. This dream never quite came to be. Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.”
Source: Middlesex
“Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.”
“Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.”
Source: Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)
“Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love.”
Source: Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
“Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.”
Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“Judge your successes by the sacrifices made to achieve them.”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.”
“Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.”
“Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.”
“Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God.”
“JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.”
“Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.”
Source: Status Anxiety
“Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and
outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of
complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And
that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.
The case for my life, then, or for that of any one else who has been a mathematician in the same sense in which I have been one, is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more; and that these somethings have a value which differs in degree only, and not in kind, from that of the creations of the great mathematicians, or of any of the other artists, great or small, who have left some kind of memorial behind them.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.”
“Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.”
Source: Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry
“Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.”
Source: Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland
“Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.”
Source: Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan: A Man to Match His Mountains
“Judged by the stark, sure-footed portrait in Hard Time, Brian Azzarello and Richard Corben clearly have John Constantine down, cold and to the life. Azzarellos grasp of pacing, character and situation resonates through every scene with a black crystal clarity thats short of masterful, while Corben contributes what is, perhaps, one of the most darkly expressive pieces in a long, already-legendary career.”
“Judged in terms of its own aspirations, the Communist regime was a monumental failure; it succeeded in one thing only - staying in power. But since for Bolsheviks power was not an end in itself but means to en end, its mere retention does not qualify the experiment as a success. The Bolsheviks made no secret of their aims: toppling everywhere regimes based on private property and replacing them with a worldwide union of socialist societies. They succeeded nowhere outside the boundaries of what had been the Russian Empire in spreading their regime until the end of World War II, when the Red Army stepped into the vacuum created in Eastern Europe by the surrender of Germany, the Chinese Communists seized control of their country from the Japanese, and Communist dictatorships, aided by Moscow, established themselves in a number of recently emancipated colonial areas.”
“Judgement belongs to Jehovah.”
“Judgement belongs to the just God.”
“Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience.”
“Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.”
Source: Complete Essays
“Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.”
“Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?”
Source: On Liberty and Utilitarianism
“Judgement is often no more than a confession of ignorance.”
“Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.”
“Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.”
“Judgement, not passion should prevail.”
“Judgementalism is not what we should offer society as a whole.”
“Judgements, criticisms, diagnoses, and interpretations of others are all alienated expressions of our needs. If someone says, 'You never understand me,' they are really telling us that their need to be understood is not being fulfilled”
Source: Nonviolent Communication 3Rd Ed (Marshall B. Rosenberg Phd) + Nonviolent Communication : Companion Workbook (Lucy Leu)
“Judgements, judgements of value concening life, for it or against it, can, in the end, never be true: they have value only as symptoms, they are worthy of consideration only as symptoms; in themselves such judgments are stupidities”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.”
“Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.”
“Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and to speak for them.”
“Judges are appointed often through the political process”