Judge Quotes - page 47

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. (Sonia Sotomayor)
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
You have obviously had a very distinguished record, and I certainly commend you for long service in the public interest. I think it is a very commendable career and I am sure you will have a successful one as a judge. View quote
Samuel Alito
I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time. View quote
Samuel Alito
The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker.... Judging requires a certain impartiality. View quote
Clarence Thomas
I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor. View quote
John Roberts
You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person. View quote
Max Frisch
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. (John Adams)
When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote: I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading. View quote
John Adams
I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. View quote
James Madison
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.... View quote
James Madison
You all very well know what deference I always pay, and ever will, to that part of the office of a jury which properly belongs to them. In regard to the law, I have always been as tenacious of the proper function of a Judge, as I have been of that of the jury. I never will, while I have the honour of executing the office of a Judge, attempt to controul or influence their minds in respect of damages; but only submit to them such observations as occur to me upon the evidence. View quote
John Eardley Wilmot
An Author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an Animal whom every body is privileged to attack; For though All are not able to write Books, all conceive themselves able to judge them. View quote
Matthew Lewis (writer)
It is when the child is accustomed to act from the point of view of those around him, when he tries to please rather than to obey, that he will judge in terms of intentions. View quote
Jean Piaget
Let not the pleasing many thee delight, First judge if those whom thou dost please judge right. View quote
John Denham
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. View quote
Thomas Fuller
And hold Humanity one man, whose universal agony Still strains and strives to gain the goal, where agonies shall cease to be. Believe in all things; none believe; judge not nor warp by "Facts" the thought; See clear, hear clear, tho' life may seem Mâyâ and Mirage, Dream and Naught. (Richard Francis Burton)
Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it. View quote
Frank Zappa
S. H. Blake (prominent Ontario Lawyer, Judge)– "God give us more such as he was, honest and true.” (Buckingham and Ross 1892, p. 639) View quote
Alexander Mackenzie
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. View quote
Paulo Coelho
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause. View quote
Blaise Pascal