David Dudley Field II Quotes

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.

David Dudley Field II

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• When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Free
  • Yourself

• I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Social
  • Corruption
  • Activism

• Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Example
  • Prejudice

• We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Stop

• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Color

• Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Home
  • Water
  • Garden

• I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Literature
  • Pride
  • Books

• In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Corruption

• I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Media

• When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Results
  • Corruption

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Done
  • Future

• Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Like
  • Prejudice
  • Minority

• You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Why
  • Fear

• It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Purpose
  • Opinion
  • Attitude

• Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Today
  • Corruption

• I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Up
  • Mind
  • May

• 'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Power
  • Judge
  • Ocean

• My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Stuck
  • Boxes
  • Definitions

• What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to me, because I am who I am.

  

  William Hung
  • Feels
  • Jokes
  • Genuine

• Mindfulness cultivates our ability to do things knowing that we're doing them.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Things
  • Mindfulness

• Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.

  

  David Dudley Field II
  • Judging
  • Prejudice
  • Corruption