Judges Quotes
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
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One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations.
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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
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Judges should decide legal disputes. Judges should not make law.
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Judges have their own point of view, and we have to respect them for that. Rather than feeling bad, we respect our judges and their opinions.
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Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.
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As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.
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When One judges another, they unconsciously allow themselves to be judged.
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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.
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When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.
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Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.
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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
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Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
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I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.
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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
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I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.
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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
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Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.
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The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality of affirmative-action programs. But almost no one seriously argues about the basic meaning or legitimacy of core civil-rights protections.
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Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.
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However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!
