#judgement

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#because #enables #enjoyable #extent #history

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#conception #fact #in fact #judgement #kind

Don’t be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn’t do what you do, or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today. ↗

— Malcom X

#condemn #evolution #ideas #inspiration #inspire

The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully. No doubt that letter was destined to lie in her box and lead to nothing. But none the less, I am certain that she would keep it all her life as a precious treasure, as her pride and justification, and now at such a minute she had thought of that letter and brought it with naive pride to raise herself in my eyes that I might see, that I, too, might think well of her. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#belittle #ego #fyodor-dostoyevsky #judgemental #notes-from-underground

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#carter #change #during #editorial #ethics

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#body #daily #depend #develop #exercise

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#been #death #demand #human #i

Your sense of judgement could use a dash of common sense. ↗

— Susan Ee

#judgement

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #true #beauty

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#judgement #opinion #beauty