Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Europe Quotes, Judging Quotes

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.

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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

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You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.

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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved.

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There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Judging Quotes , Shadow Quotes

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

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[Saddam Hussein] could have easily reconstituted a program. He was a threat to peace before we went in. He'd have been a threat to peace had we left him in power. Oftentimes history judges you on the decisions you make.

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one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

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The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

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Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

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As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

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Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

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You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging.

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The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us, the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.

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