Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help)… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I had looked for support.… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
At the end of their first years, there are few people who would have predicted that Truman would be elected in 1948… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses;… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in… — Alberto Gonzales Copy Share Image
“Strike had never wanted children; it was one of the things on which he and Charlotte had always agreed, and it had… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
In order to help usher in the golden age we must see the good in people. We must know it is there,… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
For years I have been accused of making snap judgments. Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish by… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Some of the very best private equity people, in my experience, are people who start out as stock pickers - people who… — David Bonderman Copy Share Image
The only thing we need to sustain is the freedom to act on our judgment-which includes the freedom to use our property… — Craig Biddle Copy Share Image
Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“He felt that now over his every word, his every deed, there was a judge, a judgment, which was dearer to him… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it… — Bob Edwards Copy Share Image
I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
, I'm going to reserve judgment on [Rex] Tillerson. But I'll ask him the same question I've asked the others: do you… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is… — Anne Wilkes Tucker Copy Share Image
I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that… — John Edwards Copy Share Image