“Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.” IfsTodayAsksSidesPowerfulJudgingCircumstancesHusbandMercyDivorceAgreementVery PowerfulSaudis Author:Basmah bint Saud
“When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.” GivingDoeHelpingAsksSocialJusticeSeaJudgingIndustryOughtDrugTaxesMathematicsSocial JusticeCourtSavingAppealsProfessorsRelativeNursePilotsCoalInventorJetCleanersButchersMinersSewersInspectorsJockeysLife SavingDeep SeaCoal MinersRemuneration Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another.” PeopleWayAsksSupportPositionJudgingScreensTerroristOne WayAsk MeMurdererNot Judging Author:Benicio Del Toro
“If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.” PeopleIfsKnowsStatesLawAsksUnitedUnited StatesWifeJudgingLawyerFortyPolygamyMagistratesAbove The Law Book:Journal of Discourses Source: Journal of Discourses
“Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.” IfsWantMindWellsMayHas BeensStatesCharacterActionSpiritualAsksEnergyMeditationProgressAwarenessJudgingMastersDevelopmentJudgmentLifetimeGreedCalmSelflessMysticalConditioningCharacter DevelopmentProvocationSpiritual AwarenessSounder Author:Eknath Easwaran
“I ask you not to judge me for my weakness. The only way I can endure is to be in a place where I will never see you, never be haunted by the possibility of seeing you with him. I need to be somewhere where sheer necessity forces you from my thoughts minute by minute, hour by hour, I cannot do that here.” WayNeedsI CanAsksForceHoursSeeingMinutesPossibilityJudgingWeaknessEndureSheerMy ThoughtsJudge Me Author:Joanna Noelle Levesque
“Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.” MenKindWarActionRememberYoungAsksParentExampleJudgingCriticismMercyStartingVersionsAll KindsAdministrationYoung ManClassicIllegalImmoralOrphan Book:America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else Source: America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else
“When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.” IfsWorldWayAsksJudgingTheory Author:Albert Einstein
“Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and for thy possession, the ends of the earth. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces, like a potters vessel. Be wise now therefore, ye kings. Be admonished, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his wrath be kindled but a little.” WayGivingLittlesEndsEarthAsksLordBreakPiecesWiseSonJudgingKingsKissingAngryPossessionTheeIronRejoiceWrathInheritanceVesselPottersBeing WiseTremblingHeathen Author:Alexander Anderson
“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.” GivingShouldFirstsRememberLawAsksFoundHouseNamesStrongMemoriesPrinciplesStruggleKnowingAtheismMinesJudgingRegretPersonalityInvolvedStonesGive MeCastsVicesPositive AtheismGenerosityGenerousSeatsTouchedNot KnowingDeprivedI RegretConstituents Author:Charles Bradlaugh
“A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.” GivingAsksCausesJusticeOpinionJudgingDecidedBoundsInjusticeLawyerHonestlyClients Author:Samuel Johnson
“Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.” IfsNeedsSometimesPainAsksWatchesGraceJudgingOver YouAccusers Author:Seneca the Younger