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“[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has destroyed thousands of Americans. It is also a pretext for government agents to rob innocent people in airports and on the highways - they seize and confiscate large amounts of cash and say to their victims: "Sue us if you don't like it." And more and more judges, politicians, intelligence agents, and law-enforcement officers are on the take - as dependent on the drug-war largess as the drug lords themselves.”

“Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel has not said anything, and in fact, cannot say anything. But I would even broaden it out to, you know, judges who are victims of attack ads in say state Supreme Court elections can't talk back. Judges are really barred from commenting on this kind of huge public hue and cry.”

Knows Kind Said States Facts Cry Judging Huge Election Victim Court Supreme Ads Say Anything Supreme Court Hue

Author:Dahlia Lithwick

“[The kidnapping] happened 14 years ago, and I didn't talk about it for ten years because I was too embarrassed. I was too scared. I thought, People are gonna judge me, they're gonna pity me, and I don't want that. Because I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor.”

People Want Years Happened Judging Ten Years Ago Victim Scared Pity Survivor Embarrassed Kidnapping Judge Me

Author:Frida Farrell

“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

Hate Judging I Hate Victim Existential Fake People Respectability Executioners

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.”

May Said Earth Together Heaven Judging Praying Holy Clothes Victim Salvation Injustice Saint Irony Everlasting Hereafter Condemnation Meekness Lordship Martyred

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.”

Ifs Knows May I Can Earth Force Sound Simple Judging Victim Pestilence Childishness

Book:Collected fiction

Source: Collected fiction

“The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.”

Ifs Firsts Children Enough Might Mother Next Parent Changed Judging One Day Victim Heal Dreamer Bully Visionaries Pessimist Loner Define You

Book:Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?”

Ifs Knows World Sometimes Turns Sin Fantasy Ready Judging Source Victim Innocent Guilty Judged Accused Casual Malice Schadenfreude

Book:Nuns and Soldiers

Source: Nuns and Soldiers

“...surely these victims of the sea...had rushed willingly down the hills to the water, only to find themselves caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who should judge whether they were there for the wrong reason?”

Should Reason Water Sea Judging Victim Caught Hills Sailing Wrong Time Wrong Reasons

Author:John Rousmaniere

“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.”

Sometimes Whole Law Politics Liberty Judging Treats Police Victim Prison Criminals Freedom And Liberty Freedom Liberty Plunder Criminal Law

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."”

“I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. I am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself.”

“Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.”

People Needs Giving School Deals Military Style Judging Logic Victim Train Complexes Ignorant Mediums Equipment Good And Bad Criteria Format Military Industrial Complex Manpower

Author:Frank Zappa

“If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.”

Ifs Doe Can Do Crime Taught Judging Police Victim Violent Jury Self Defense Shooter Self Defence Violent Crimes Felons

Book:Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition

Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition

“With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.”

Mind Believe May Self Situation Self Esteem Emotional Judging Losing Criticism Abuse Victim Blame Esteem Insult Incapable Beaten Emotional Abuse Accusation

Author:Beverly Engel