Why do all rulers hate everyone who is against war in principle? Because they are all slaves to atavistic inertia. Try to speak loudly against the war – and you will immediately be judged for immorality. So, the war is moral.
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Never praise yourself, never judge others, and never argue.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
—Michelangelo
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.
—Nikolai Gogol
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
—Ernest Hemingway
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
—Immanuel Kant
If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
—Immanuel Kant
Why do you send fools to judge my work?
—Michelangelo
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
—Oscar Wilde
Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
It is necessary to keep one ‘s compass in one ‘s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
—Michelangelo
Every time you judge yourself you break your own heart.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
—Immanuel Kant
We know our Lord bears gently with the ignorant and erring, and it is not for us to judge how far the ignorance and error must reach before it passes the confines of His great loving-kindness.
—Amy Carmichael
We could no more earn a place in the heart of the Father than we could satisfy the claims of the righteous Judge. All is of free grace.
—D. L. Moody
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
—Voltaire
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
The dream does not calculate or think; generally does not judge: it merely transform.
—Sigmund Freud
‘Tis well for some that God is to be their judge, for by that means the mouths of all who reproach and condemn them will be stopped.
—Jonathan Edwards
Many of those who are in Christ are condemned by others who are unjust judges.
—Jonathan Edwards
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.
—John Locke