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JUDGE (TO)
JUDGEMENT --- JUDGES
JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS
JUST DESSERTS --- JUSTICE

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JUDGE (TO)

see: "CRITICISM"
see: "KNOWING (SOMEONE)"
see: "MORALITY"


If we cease to judge this world, we may
find ourselves, very quickly, in one which
is infinitely worse.
--attributed to Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
Canadian novelist and poet.

How good it would be if we could learn to be rigorous
in judgment of ourselves, and gentle in our judgment
of our neighbors! In remedying defects, kindness works
best with others, sternness with ourselves. It is easy to
make allowances for our faults, but dangerous; hard to
make allowances for others' faults, but wise.
--Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858—1901)
American clergyman.
_Thoughts For Everyday Living: From The Spoken And
Written Words Of Maltbie Davenport Babcock_ [1901]

We ought not to judge men by their absolute excellence, but by
the distance which they have traveled from the point at which
they started.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister,
Henry Ward Beecher and Edna Dean Proctor, _Life Thoughts: Gathered
From the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher_ [1858]

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Judge not, that ye be not judged.
--_Bible_
"Matthew" 7:1

& see:

Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
--attributed to Florence King (b. 1936)
American journalist, essayist, and novelist.

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I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not
wait for the last judgment. It takes place every
day.
--Albert Camus (1913—1960)
French novelist, dramatist, and essayist who won
the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.
_The Fall_ [1956]

We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all
right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful,
nay, essential, to see his good qualities before
pronouncing on his bad.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
"Goethe", in _Foreign Review_ [1828].

You must look into people as well as at them.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Letter to his son [4 October 1746].

Observe a man's actions; scrutinize his motives;
take note of the things that give him pleasure.
How, then, can he hide from you what he really
is?
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.
Attributed in Brian Brown
_The Wisdom of the Chinese: Their Philosophy in Sayings and Proverbs: [1920].

You shall judge of a man by his
foes as well as by his friends.
--Joseph Conrad (1857—1924)
Polish-born English novelist.
_Lord Jim_ [1900]

We come to know best what men are,
in their worse jeopardies.
--Samuel Daniel (1562—1619)
English poet and dramatist.
_To Henry Wriothesley Earl of Southampton_

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who
are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.
--Paul Eldridge (1888—1982)
American educator, novelist, and poet.
_Maxims for a Modern Man_, 1198 [1965]

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You cannot see the mountain near.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
"Shakespeare; Or, The Poet" (essay) [c. 1841-43]


Let none presume to measure the irregularities of
Michael Angelo and Socrates by village scales.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Representative Men: Seven Lectures_,
in "The Living Age", [6 July 1850].

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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure
on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil
in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment
and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance
turns.
--Henry Fielding (1707—1754)
English novelist and dramatist.
Quoted in Mathew Carey (ed.)
_The School of Wisdom, or, American Monitor_ p. 59 [2nd ed., 1803].

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940)
American novelist.
_The Great Gatsby_ [1925]

There is a a tendency to judge a race, a nation or
any distinct group by its least worthy members.
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982.
_The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements_, ch. 18 [1951]

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by
his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate
them by his best.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_The Plays of William Shakespeare_ (preface) [1765]

Everything that is unconsious in ourselves we
discover in our neighbor, and we treat him
accordingly. ... What we combat in him is
usually our inferior side.
--Carl Gustav Jung (1875—1961)
Swiss psychologist.
_Modern Man in Search of a Soul_ [1933]

Most people judge others simply by
how prosperous or popular they are.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_ [Random House, 1959]

Don't judge a book by its cover.
--"L.A. Times" [14 March 1897]

It is a golden rule that one should not judge people according
to their opinions, but according to what these opinions make
of them.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742—1799)
German scientist and drama critic.
Quoted in Adolf Wilbrandt (ed.)
_Selected Writings of Georg C. Lichtenberg_ [1893].

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
_Kavanagh: A Tale_, ch. I [1849]

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
--Lucan [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus] (39—65)
Roman poet and republican patriot.
_Pharsalia_, VII, 263

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It's great to be color blind, and ethnic blind, and
religious blind--but blind is blind. It means you
can't see. I'd rather see and then judge, as
opposed to cutting off the cognitive process quite
so early. Why suppress what separates us from the
lower forms of life that can't think and replace it
with modes of non-reason, like political correctness,
term limits or "zero tolerance?"

Look at the World War II posters: we used to be able
to trust our citizens to be our eyes and ears. But
then again, we used to have common sense, and hold
it in some esteem. Political correctness is almost
always the opposite of common sense.

It's what has us pretending at the airport that Ray
Charles is just as likely to blow up the plane as
the guy with the bin Laden lunchbox. I'm not saying
turn in everyone with an accent and a bad attitude—
we'd have no cab drivers. And I'm not suggesting that
the government monitor our every move and habit.
That's already being done by the credit card industry.

I'm just saying that it takes neighbors looking out
for neighbors, and a postman passing along the fact
that at 180 Maplewood, the seven addressees all
named Mohammed are building "something" in their
living room.

If it turns out to be just a pole for strippers they
get back to the house (the 72 virgins is more likely),
then at least we know they're just perverts, and not
terrorists. Like the lady said: it takes a village.

--Bill Maher (b. 1956)
American comedian and author.
_When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden_ [2002],
"Neighbors Looking Out For Neighbors"

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We are all inclined to judge ourselves
by our ideals; others by their acts.
--Harold Nicolson (1886—1968)
English diplomat, politician, and writer.
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [May 1936].

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to
judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself
rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupιry (1900—1944)
French novelist.
_The Little Prince_ (Le Petit Prince), ch. 10 [1943]

I admire men of character and I judge character not
by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly
how they deal with their subordinates. And that,
to me, is where you find out what the character
of a man is.
--H. Norman Schwarzkopf, III (b. 1934)
American general who commanded the U.S. forces in the Gulf War of 1991.
_Journal-World_ [27 March 1991]

Other men's sins are before our eyes;
our own behind our backs.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
"On Anger", II, 28

We measure the excellency of other men by some
excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
--John Selden (1584—1654)
English historian.
_Table Talk_ [1689]

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes
my measure anew each time he sees me, while all the rest
go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit
me.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
Quoted in William Le Roy Stidger
_There are Sermons in Stories_ [1942].

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves,
but by what they are relatively to us.
--Madame Swetchine [Sophie Soymanof] (1782—1857)
Russian-born French writer and salon hostess.
_The Writings of Madame Swetchine_
"Airelles", no. 25 (ed. Count de Falloux) [1869]

Human nature is so constituted, that all see
and judge better in the affairs of other men
than in their own.
--Terence [Publius Terentius Afer] (c. 190—159 BC)
Roman comic dramatist.
Quoted in Hugh Moore _A Dictionary of Quotations from
Various Authors in Ancient and Modern Languages_ [1831].

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality,
arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could
be altogether bad, or altogether good.
--attributed to Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715—1747)
French moralist and essayist.

If you really want to judge the character of a man,
look not at his great performances. Every fool may
become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man
do his most common actions; these are indeed the
things which will tell you the real character of a
great man.
--Vivekananda (1863—1902)
Hindu spiritual leader and reformer.
_Swami Vivekananda on Universal Ethics and Moral
Conduct_ (Comp. by Swami Ranganathananda) [1965]

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
--Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (1694—1778)
French writer and philosopher.
Quoted in _The Tuners' Magazine_ [January 1915].

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or kind
deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others.
This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of
thinking about others without the thoughts being
criticisms. This is rarer still.
--unknown
In _Bible Review_, p. 551 (ed. H.E. Butler) [1923].



JUDGEMENT

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see: "CRITICISM"
see: "DECISIONS"
see: "EXPERIENCE"
see: "OPINION"
see: "PERCEPTION"
see: "REASON"
see: "WISDOM"
see: "SUCCESS" for other related links


The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults
of others, are always the most free from faults themselves.
--James H. Aughey (1828—1911)
American clergyman.
_Spiritual Gems of The Ages_ [1886]

It is good discretion not to make too much of any man
at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
_Essays_ [1625] "Of Followers and Friends"

Except among those whose education has been
in the minimalist style, it is understood that
hasty moral judgments about the past are a
form of injustice.
--Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)
French-born American writer, educator, and cultural historian.
_From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western
Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present_ [2000]

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Here's a story. A man went to a rabbi and asked,
"Rabbi, you're a wise man, how is it that you're wise?"

And the rabbi replied, "Study and hard work."

Then the man asked, "What made you study and work hard?"

And the Rabbi replied, "A lot of experience."

"And how'd you get a lot of experience?"

And the rabbi answered, "I had good judgment."

And the man then asked, "What gave you good judgment?"

And the Rabbi said, "A lot of bad experiences."

--Daniel Bell, Sociologist
In "NY Times Magazine" [9 March 1997].

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It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember
that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
--William Andrus Alcott (1798—1859)
American educator, physician, and author.
_The Young Woman's Guide to Excellence _ [13th ed., 1847]

Many factors contribute to who we become as
human beings: our genes, our maturation, our
unique biological potentials and limitations, our
life experiences and the conclusions we draw
from them, the knowledge and information
available to us, and, of course, our premises or
philosophical beliefs, and the thinking we choose
to do or not to do. And even this list is an
oversimplification. The truth, is we are far from
understanding everything that goes into shaping
the persons we become, and it is arrogant and
stupid to imagine that we do.
--Nathaniel Branden (b. 1930)
Canadian-born psychotherapist and writer.
_The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand_ [1982]

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.
--Robert Browning (1812—1889)
English poet.
"Bishop Blougram's Apology" [1855]

I'll tell you a big secret, my friend. Don't wait for
the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. In the
midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in
me an invincible summer.
--Albert Camus (1913—1960)
French novelist, dramatist, and essayist who won
the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.
_La Chute_ (The Fall) [1956]

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay
essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on
his bad.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
"Goethe" (essay) [1828]
(Carlyle attributes this as a maxim.)

Men's judgments sway on that side fortune leans.
--George Chapman (c. 1559—1634)
English playwright.
"The Widow's Tears" [1605]

You must look into people as well as at them.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Letter to his son [4 October 1746].

Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
--William Cowper (1731—1800)
English poet and hymnodist.
_The Task_, bk. vi [1785]

Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.
_Absolam and Achitophel_ [1681]

Distrust your judgement the moment you can
discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.
--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830—1916)
Austrian writer.
_Aphorisms_, p. 74. [1880-1905]

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940)
American novelist.
_The Great Gatsby_, ch. I [1925]

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow
their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
--Stephen Jay Gould (1941—2002)
American palaeontologist.
_An Urchin in the Storm_ [1987] "The Quack Detector"

The voice of the people has been said to be the
voice of God; and, however generally this maxim
has been quoted and believed, it is not true to
fact. The people are turbulent and changing,
they seldom judge or determine right.
--Alexander Hamilton (1755or57—1804)
New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention,
major author of the _Federalist Papers_, and first
secretary of the Treasury of the United States [1789-95].
In a speech at the Constitutional Convention [18 June 1787].

Many Germans, women in particular, used to descant
to me upon the radiance of [Hitler's] expression and his
remarkable eyes. I must confess he never gave me any
impression of greatness. He was a spellbinder for his
own people. To the last, I continued to ask myself how
he had risen to what he was and how he maintained
his ascendance over the German people.
--Sir Nevile Henderson (1882—1942)
British ambassador in Berlin [1937—1939].
Adapated from an article in _Life_ [25 March 1940] in which
Henderson declares himself baffled by the appeal of the Fόhrer.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
--Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819—1881)
American novelist, poet, and editor of "Scribner’s Magazine."
Lesson XIII "Repose" in _Lessons in Life_
by Timothy Titcomb (pseud.) [10th ed. 1862].

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and
socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its
works and socialism by its literature.
--Sidney Hook (1902—1989)
American educator and social philosopher.
_Out of Step_ [1985]

Few things feel finer than havin' our judgement vindicated.
--Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868—1930)
American humorist.
_Abe Martin: Hoss Sense and Nonsense_, p.126 [1926]

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Judgment is forced upon us by experience.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_Lives of the Poets_ [1779—1781] "Pope"


Criticism, as it was first introduced by Aristotle,
was meant as a standard of judging well.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
Attributed in Adam Woolιver (comp.)
_Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor_ [3rd ed. 1878].

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We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_, no. 456 [1665]


Everyone complains of his memory, and
no one complains of his judgment.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]; maxim 89.


We rarely find that people have good
sense unless they agree with us.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]; maxim 347.

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You are young and have the world before you; stoop as
you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.
--Cotton Mather (1663—1728)
American Congregational minister and author.
Advice to Benjamin Franklin upon approaching
a low hanging beam in his parsonage.

He who has more knowledge than judgment is
made for another man's use more than his own.
--attributed to William Penn (1644—1718)
Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw
the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe.

Judgement is to be made of actions in according
to the times in which they were performed.
--Plutarch (A.D. 46?—119?)
Greek philosopher and biographer.
"Poplicola and Colon Compared"
_Parallel Lives_, Dryden edition [1693]

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_An Essay on Criticism_, l. 9 [1711]

There is no escape from the fact that men have
to make choices; so long as men have to make
choices, there is no escape from moral values;
so long as moral values are at stake, no moral
neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning
a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture
and murder of his victims. The moral principle to
adopt in this issue, is: "Judge, and be prepared
to be judged."
--Ayn Rand (1905—1982)
Russian-born American writer.
_The Virtue of Selfishness_, [1964]
"How Does One Lead a Rational Life in an Irrational Society?",
originally printed in "The Objectivist Newletter" [April 1962].

Never does a man portray his own character more
vividly than in his manner of portraying another's.
--Jean Paul Richter (1763—1825)
German novelist.
_Titan_ [4 vols., 1800—1803] "Twenty-Eighth Jubilee"

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence
is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which
information is collected and used.
--Carl Sagan (1934—1996)
American astronomer and author.
_Cosmos_ [1980]

The number of those who undergo the fatigue
of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
--Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751—1816)
Anglo-Irish dramatist.
_The Critic_, act I, sc. 2 [1779]

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 269 [1908 ed.].

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
--William Howard Taft (1857—1930)
27th President of the United States [1909—1913]
and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court [1921—1930].
Attributed in Jacob M. Braude
_New Treasury Of Stories For Every Speaking and Writing Occasion_ [1959].

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acumen (noun)
The ability to make quick accurate intelligent
judgments about people or situations.

judicious (adj.) [ju-'di-shκs]
Wise in a particular instance, showing sound judgement.
"Judiciously" is the adjective and "judiciousness," the
noun. The near synonym, "prudent," implies judicious
restraint.

perspicacity (noun) [pκr-spκ-'kζ-si-ti]
The ability to see things clearly and make
sound judgements based on that vision.

prudent (adjective) ['prood-nt]
Wise, sagacious, exercising sound judgment.

sagacious [suh-GAY-shus], adjective:
Of keen penetration and judgment; discerning
and judicious; knowing; shrewd; wise.



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JUDGES

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see: "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for related links


Bring in the guilty bastard. We'll give him
a fair trial, and then we'll hang him.
--attributed to Roy Bean (1825—1903)
American jurist.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth
and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.
_Preface to Brissot's Address_ [1794] (Wikiquote)

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[Norman Birkett was] famous in London courts
for his sharp wit. With his red hair peeking out
from under his judicial wig, he once offered a
minor criminal his last words before the bench.

'As God is my judge', said the man, 'I'm innocent.'

'He isn't, I am, and you aren't,' replied Birkett.

--Walter Cronkite (1916—2009)
American broadcast journalist.
_A Reporter's Life_ [1996]

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Biggest damnfool mistake I ever made.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890—1969),
American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII,
NATO commander, American President [1953—1961].
Recalling his 1953 appointment of Earl Warren
as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Note:

Considering Warren's record as Governor of California
Eisenhower shouldn't have been surprised. The following
is from the 1951 revised edition of John Gunther's
1947 book, _Inside USA_ :

As governor Warren has always been fair-minded, conscientious,
tolerant, and liberal. He lifted old-age pensions from forty to fifty
dollars a month; he tried to push through a compulsory health
insurance bill, which the lobbies beat; he set about a program of
prison reform; he worked hard for a state Fair Employment
Practices Commission, and to augment unemployment insurance;
he greatly improved the governmental machinery of the state [...]
He played for AF of L support (which he now has); hence, he tended
as a rule to support everything the AF of L asked for.

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Oons, Sir! do you say that I am drunk?
Sir, that I am as sober as a judge.
--Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
English novelist and dramatist.
_Don Quixote in England_, 3.14 [1734]

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We do not inquire what the legislature meant;
we ask only what the statute means.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher.
"The Theory of Legal Interpretation" Harvard Law Review [25 January 1899]


Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and
they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need
education in the obvious — to learn to transcend our
own convictions and to leave room for much that we
hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by
the orderly change of law.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher.
"Law and the Court" [1913], in _Collected Legal Papers_

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We have to remember that we have to make
judges out of men, and that by being made
judges their prejudices are not diminished
and their intelligence is not increased.
--Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899)
American politician and orator know as "the great agnostic."
Speech in Washington, D.C. [22 October 1883].

I went up to a Bronx senior center and told two hundred senior citizens:
A judge I helped elect was mugged recently. And do you know what he
did? He called a press conference and said, 'This mugging of me will in
no way affect my decisions in matters of this kind.' And an elderly lady
got up in the back of the room and said, 'Then mug him again.'
--Edward I. Koch (b. 1924)
Mayor of New York City [1978—1989].
_Mayor_ [1984]

[On his appointment of Herbert O'Brien as a judge:]
When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!
--Fiorello La Guardia (1882—1947)
American politician who served three terms
as mayor of New York City [1933—1945].
Quoted in N.Y. Times [12 February 1941].

Half as sober as a judge.
--Charles Lamb (1775—1834)
English essayist.
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Moxon [August 1833].



JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS

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There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail
to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is,
contempt prior to examination
--William Paley (1743—1805)
English theologian and philosopher.
Attributed in William Henry Poole
_Anglo-Israel; Or, The British Nation the Lost Tribes of Israel_ [1879].



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JUST DESSERTS

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see: "CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES"
see: "FATE"
see: "ACTIONS" for other related links


People who treat other people as less than human must not be
surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes
floating back to them, poisoned.
--James Baldwin (1924—1987)
American author and playwright.
_No Name in the Street_ [1972]

The rain, it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
--Lord Bowen (1835—1894)
English judge.
In Walter Sichel _Sands of Time_ [1923].

Time wounds all heals.
--Frank Case (fl. 1938)
American hotel manager.
_Tales of a Wayward Inn_, ch. 2 [1938]

The meek shall inherit the earth
but not the mineral rights.
--attributed to J. Paul Getty (1892—1976)
American industrialist and founder of Getty Oil.

Or maybe all that negativity was finally coming home
to roost. Most systems of magic or mysticism have rules
of conduct, things you do and things you do not. The
wiccans call it the threefold law: what you do to others
comes back to you threefold. Buddhists call it karma.
Christians call it answering for your sins. I call it what
goes around comes around. It really does, you know.
--Anita Blake, character in
Laurell K. Hamilton's _Obsidian Butterfly_ [2000].

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers while the bad prevails.
--Homer (c. 850? BC)
Greek epic poet.
_The Odyssey_, c. 800BC

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In this meaningless life of mine I have seen
both of these: a righteous man perishing in
his righteousness, and a wicked man living
long in his wickedness.
--Bible
"Eccleciastes" 7:15


There is something else meaningless that occurs
on earth: righteous men who get what the wicked
deserve, and wicked men who get what the
righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.
--ibid 8:14


All share a common destiny — the righteous and the
wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the
unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who
do not. As it is with the good man, so with the sinner;
as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who
are afraid to take them.
--ibid 9:2

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JUSTICE

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see: "FAIRNESS"
see: "PUNISHMENT"
see: "RIGHT"
see: "TRUTH"
see: "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for other related links


Liberty, equality — bad principles! The only true
principle for humanity is justice, and justice towards
the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness.
--Henri Frιdιrick Amiel (1821—1881)
Swiss critic.
_Journal Intime_ [1883]

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
--Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
_Nicomachean Ethics_, bk. V [c. 350 B.C.]

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,
a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot.
--Bible
"Exodus" 21:24

It is better that ten guilty persons escape
than that one innocent suffer.
--William Blackstone (1723—1780)
English jurist.
_Commentaries on the Laws of England_ [1765]

The halls of justice. That's the only place
you see the justice, is in the halls.
--Lenny Bruce [Leonard Alfred Schneider] (1925—1966)
American comedian.
_The Essential Lenny Bruce_, ed. John Cohen [1967]

Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist, playwright, and politician.
"Thomas Mόntzer to Martin Luther" in _Chronicles and Characters_ [1868].

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or
bring justice to our enemies, justice will be
done.
--George W. Bush (b. 1946)
The 43rd President of the United States and a former Governor of Texas.
Address to joint session of Congress [20 September 2001].

We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth — one for
every five hundred Americans, three times as many as are in England,
four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as
many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not
sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training
in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully
or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers
serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-
represented.
--Jimmy Carter (b. 1924)
American Democratic statesman, President [1977—1981].
Remarks at L.A. County Bar Association, Los Angeles, Ca. [4 May 1978].

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
_De officiis_ (On Duties), I, 10 [44 BC]


Justice consists in doing no injury to men;
decency in giving them no offense.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
_De officiis_ (On Duties), bk. 1, ch. 28, sec. 99 [44 BC]

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Military justice is to justice as military music is to music.
--Georges Clemenceau (1841—1929)
French statesman.
Attributed in _United States Law Week_ [3 June 1969].

If it doesn't make sense, you should find for the defense.
--Johnnie Cochran (1937—2005)
American lawyer.
Defending Sean (Puffy) Combs on gun and bribery charges.

All that we are is the result of what we have
thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is
made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks
or acts with an evil thought, pain follows
him, as the wheel follows the foot of the
ox that draws the carriage.
--_The Dhammapada_,
Buddhist scripture.

Justice is truth in action.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
Speech in House of Commons [11 February 1851].

Hogan's r-right whin he says: 'Justice is blind.' Blind
she is, an' deef an' dumb an' has a wooden leg.
--Finley Peter Dunne (1867—1936)
American journalist and humorist.
_Mr. Dooley's Opinions_ "On Cross-Examinations" [1900]

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty
another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Essays_, First Series [1841], "Circles"

It was a wise man who said that there is no greater
inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
--Felix Frankfurter (1882—1965)
Austrian-born U.S. Supreme Court justice who helped found the A.C.L.U..
Dissenting opinion in "Dennis v. United States" [1950]

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than
that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that
has been long and generally approved.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
Letter to Benjamin Vaughn [14 March 1785].

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular
education, without which neither justice nor freedom
can be permanently maintained.
--James A. Garfield (1831—1881)
20th President of the United States [1881].
"Letter of Acceptance" [12 July 1880]

Justice delayed is justice denied.
--William Gladstone (1809—1898)
British Liberal statesman, Prime Minister [1868—1874, 1880—1885, 1892—1894].
Speech in House of Commons [16 March 1868].

[Lawyer to potential client:]
You have a pretty good case, Mr. Pitkin.
How much justice can you afford?
--J.B. Handelsman (b. 1940)
American cartoonist.
Cartoon caption in _New Yorker_ [24 December 1973].

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy
the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the
striving after this mirage of social justice.
--Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899—1992)
Austrian-born British economist; co-winner of the
1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
_Economic Freedom and Representative Government_ [1973].

[On the libel damages awarded against "Private Eye" to Sonia Sutcliffe:]
If this is justice, I am a banana.
--Ian Hislop (b. 1960)
English satirical journalist.
Comment [24 May 1989].

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person
should be punished without the forms of law
than that he should escape.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
In a letter to William Carmichael [27 May 1788].
(Jefferson was discussing a group of armed people acting to prevent
the lynching of a physician accused of robbing graves — GBAQ.)

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968)
American civil rights leader.
_Letter from Birmingham Jail_ [16 April 1963]

The love of justice is, in most men, nothing
more than the fear of suffering injustice.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_, no. 78 [1678]

An ex-consul has been deliberately murdered by
a slave in his own home. None of his fellow-slaves
prevented or betrayed the murderer, though the
senatorial decree threatening the whole household
with execution still stands ... Exemplary punishment
always contains an element of injustice. But
individual wrongs are outweighed by the advantage
of the community.
--Gaius Cassius Longinus,
in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.)
_History in Quotations_ [2004].
Cohan & Major note that:
When Pedanius Secundus, the city prefect, was murdered
by one of his slaves in AD 61 the ancient custom that all
household slaves should be executed was challenged by
the populace. In a debate in the senate Longinus won the
day with his arguments in favor of applying the full rigor
of the law. The crowd tried to prevent the execution from
being carried out, and detachments of soldiers had to be
brought in to ensure that the 400 slaves could be taken to
their execution.

There is a destiny that makes us brothers,
None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others,
Comes back into our own.
--Edwin Markham (1852—1940)
American poet and lecturer.
_A Creed_ [1900]

I shall temper so
Justice with mercy.
--John Milton (1608—1674)
English poet.
_Paradise Lost_, bk. 10, l. 77 [1667]

A just man is not one who does no ill,
But he, who with the power, has not the will.
--Philemon (c. 362 B.C.—c. 262 B.C.)
Athenian poet and playwright.
Quoted in John Booth _Epigrams, Ancient and Modern_, p. 265 [1863].

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
--Friedrich von Schiller (1759—1805)
German poet, historian, and dramatist.
_Mary Stuart_, II, iii [1800]

He who decides a case without hearing the other side,
though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Medea_, cxcix

Anon: How can justice be secured in Athens?
Solon: If those who are not injured feel as
indignant as those who are.
--Solon (630?—560? B.C.)
Athenian lawmaker and Lyric poet.
In Earl Warren, "The Law and the Future", _Fortune_ [November 1955].

No obligation to justice does force a man to
be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
--Jeremy Taylor (1613—1667)
English Anglican clergyman and writer.
In Reginald Heber (ed.) _The Whole Works of the Right
Rev. Jeremy Taylor_ [p. 17 in vol. 2 of 15 vols., 1822].

Fairness, n. That impartiality and equity of
treatment that everyone approves of, so long
as their own interests are not threatened.
--Edmund H. Volkart (1919—1992)
_The Angel's Dictionary: A Modern Tribute to Ambrose Bierce_, p. 78 [1986]

That generous maxim, that it is much more prudent to acquit
two persons, though actually guilty, than to pass sentence
of condemnation on one that is virtuous and innocent.
--Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (1694—1778)
French writer and philosopher.
_Zadig_, ch. 6 [1747]

There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is
no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say when
he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the
decision of no unjust judge to-day.
--Daniel Webster (1782—1852)
American orator and politician.
Speech in New York, N.Y. [24 March 1831].

If someone rapes a boyar's [member of the old aristocracy's]
daughter or a boyar's wife [then he is to pay] 5 grivnas [coins]
of gold for the dishonour, and 5 grivnas of gold to the bishop;
and if she be [a daughter or a wife] of lesser boyars 1 grivna
of gold, and 1 grivna of gold to the bishop ... [if she be a
daughter or wife] of common people, 15 grivnas [of fur] to
her and 15 grivnas [of fur] to the bishop.
--Yaroslav I (Yaroslav the Wise) (980—1054)
Grand prince of Kiev.
In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_ [2004].

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dharna [DAHR-nuh], noun:
In India, the practice of exacting justice or compliance with a just
demand by sitting and fasting at the doorstep of an offender until
death or until the demand is granted.


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