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  • #1
    Martin Heidegger
    “If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. ”
    Martin Heidegger

  • #2
    Paul Géraldy
    “Memory is a poet, not a historian.”
    Paul Geraldy

  • #3
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #4
    Earl Nightingale
    “When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself”
    Earl Nightingale

  • #5
    Henry James
    “I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”
    Henry James

  • #6
    “That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.”
    Emily Raboteau, The Professor's Daughter

  • #7
    Nelson Algren
    “The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.”
    Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make

  • #8
    Cesare Beccaria
    “For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.”
    Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings

  • #9
    Chris Hodges
    “We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.”
    Chris Hodges, Fresh Air: Trading Stale Spiritual Obligation for a Life-Altering, Energizing, Experience-It-Everyday Relationship with God

  • #10
    “Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.”
    Traci Lea LaRussa

  • #11
    César Chávez
    “History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.”
    César Chávez

  • #12
    “It is very important to carefully observe the things we see before we judge. Things aren't always as they appear.”
    Ellen J. Barrier

  • #13
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    “Never judge someone based on what you've heard.”
    Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
    tags: judge

  • #14
    Jhonen Vásquez
    “The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.”
    Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

  • #15
    Jhonen Vásquez
    “Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.”
    Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

  • #16
    Jhonen Vásquez
    “It's a frightening world to be alone in.”
    Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

  • #17
    Jhonen Vásquez
    “Well, I just don’t want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing more. Not a monster, not a bogeyman. Nothing but another reason to feel better about yourself. Understand that it’s just a person - not worth devoting any nightmares to.”
    Jhonen Vasquez, JTHM: Director's Cut (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) JTHM: Director's Cut

  • #18
    Neil Gaiman
    “It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
    Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch



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