Judges Quotes

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. View quote
Ron Paul
The more one judges, the less one loves. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. View quote
Alexander Pope
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution. View quote
Charles Evans Hughes
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. View quote
William Howard Taft
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. View quote
Max Beerbohm
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter. View quote
Edmund Burke
EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid. (Samuel Johnson)
We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
The solemn fop significant and budge A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. View quote
William Cowper
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. View quote
Francis Bacon
Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the greatest indignation when, as often, good judges are flattered by the charm of social entertainments into an approbation which is a mere a pretence. View quote
Vitruvius
To see the world is to judge the judges. View quote
Joseph Joubert
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. View quote
Michelangelo
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. View quote
Walt Whitman
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished. View quote
David Dinkins
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. (Nancy Lopez)
President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage. View quote
Bill Shuster
Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it! View quote
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it. View quote
Patricia Ireland
When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers. View quote
William Kunstler