J Quotes
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“Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.”
“Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.”
“Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.”
“Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.”
“Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.”
“Judges don't age. Time decorates them.”
Source: Four Plays
“Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings.”
“Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.”
“Judges isn't just about people who blow it over and over. It's a picture of God's love that never fails even when we do.”
“Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.”
“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author
“Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.”
“Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.”
Source: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...
“Judges only can justify their role in the courtroom, not in the streets where they are just part of the common public.”
“Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.”
“Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.”
“Judges should interpret the law, not make it.”
“Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.”
“Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.”
“Judges who undermine the National Assembly are not only risky to the nation; they are also for themselves since they are part of the nation too.”
“Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.”
“Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments”
Source: A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies
“Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one.”
“Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.”
“Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are”
“Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.”
“Judging by everyone's excitement, this day will always be remembered at the loading dock as the day 'Larry made it on the internet'.”
Source: Humans of New York
“Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.”
“Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere.”
“Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him.”
Source: Magic Slays
“Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.”
“Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.”
“Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.”
“Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.”
Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes
“Judging by their positions at the time, rather than their post hoc allegations, Democrats adored the Soviet Union. Congressional Democrats repeatedly opposed funding anti-Communist rebels, they opposed Reagan's military build-up, they opposed building a shield to protect America from incoming missiles, they opposed putting missiles in Europe. As a rule, Democrats opposed anything opposed by their cherished Soviet Union.”
“Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show.”
Source: The Ask
“Judging by your performance at the Olympics, it don't look too bright for your future does it!”
“Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.”
Source: Choice Cuts
“Judging from my experience as a graduate of one
university and the wife of a professor attached to another, it does seem to me that academic life in any country tends to make both men and women narrow, censorious and self-important. My husband I believe to be among the excep-
tions, but one or two of his young donnish contemporaries have been responsible for some of the worst exhibitions of bad manners that I have ever encountered. Apparently most dons grow out of this contemptuous brusqueness as the years go by ; elderly professors, though often disapproving, are almost always punctilious. On the whole I have found American dons politer than English, and those from provincial universities more courteous than the Oxford and Cambridge variety.”
Source: Testament of Youth
“Judging from our last fifteen flights, I can tell you that poverty is not a popular conversation choice in first class. Or any class. In any class. Going anywhere. Which is really handy for the people on the plane, I guess.”
Source: Dig
“Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.”
“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.”
“Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.”
“Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.”
Source: Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910
“Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that brought to them substantial memories of the girls they had left behind in London or Manchester. As the Quartermaster Captain lisped after performing before a particularly rapt audience: 'I bet there were more standing pricks than snotty noses tonight'. Astonishingly, I suspect he was right. We probably helped to keep the home fires of passion burning.”
“Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis”
“Judging happiness to be the fruit of freedom and freedom of valor, never decline the dangers of war.”
Source: The Funeral Oration of Pericles
“Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.”
“Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can be rejected or refused.”