Education Quote by Jacques Barzun

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form…

— Jacques Barzun

“Rendering moral judgements in retrospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. Yet we can…

— Jon Meacham

“The absence of judgment becomes a catalyst and an enabler for greater injustice. Contrary to popular thought, judgment is a GOOD thing when it…

— J. Chace Gordon

“Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.”

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“Imperfect judgments; judgments formed on half-known grounds; judgments formed by the lesser intelligence concerning a greater which it cannot comprehend—what rebellion and ruin have…

— Mrs. Alfred Gatty

“The world, being in the constant commission of vast quantities of injustice, is a little too apt to comfort itself with the idea that…

— Charles Dickens

“When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“The misfortune we sometimes view as punishment is really just the natural result of our poor judgment; but it is easier for us to…

— Debbie Gilliland

“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the laws are…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion was in…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“However ignorant a person may be, he or she can always moralize. And it is the propensity to moralize that takes up most of…

— Kenneth Minogue

“As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in…

— Edward Bellamy