“Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence," ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law.” PeopleIfsWayMomentsLawHumanityFoundJusticeCommonWatchesCasesGoneJudgingJudgmentEvidenceCourtBoxesCriticalRationalOne WayAgain And AgainAccusedJuryBargainsCommon LawJurorsCritical Moments Author:E. P. Thompson
“Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.” StatesGrowsHoursDifferencesCommonWatchesTasteJudgmentMarkTitlesDistinctionSecondsTemperSmallestRefinedIngeniousCultivationStationaryHume Book:Pleasures of Literature Source: Pleasures of Literature
“Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.” PeopleIfsMindHeartMeanSufferingWatchesJudgingComfortableJudgmentAppreciateRelationSeparationShiftingOpen HeartPredicamentsAppreciate YouPerpetuatingWhere You StandJudging You Author:Ram Dass
“The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.” MayHoursDifferencesWatchesMinutesJudgmentOrdinaryMachinesClockSufficientSecondsSmallest Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
“But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.” MenWatchesWindJudgmentRectify Book:The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling Source: The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling
“Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.” PassionWatchesHabitBattleJudgmentEverydayDetailsEveryday LifeSmall DetailsGreat Battle Author:John Lubbock