Passing Judgment Quotes (page 2)

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• today
• forward
• feeling

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They did not have long to explore the sexual revolution and make it their own. Before the old chains had grown cold, while young women were still rubbing the circulation back into their ankles and taking tentative steps forward, the beauty industries levied a heavy toll on further investigations,... Naomi Wolf

• selfish
• powerful
• sacrifice

Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice. George Eliot

• god
• personality
• thinking

It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience. E. O. Wilson

• past
• knowledge
• sailing

Here, I could see, was choice matter on which the expert and art critic could exercise their knowledge and judgment. As I had neither, I made an experiment or two, and was able to inform the readers of the paper that if you walked briskly past the picture, winking both eyes as fast as possible, you really got a sort of impression of movement and activity, of ships and boats coming into the harbour and sailing out of it, of sails lowered and hoisted, of an uncertain background, now obscured,... Arthur Machen

• wild
• small
• imagination

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience. Charlotte Bronte

• history
• judgmental
• judgment

History passes the final judgment. Sidney Poitier

• grandma
• grandpa
• needed

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong. Steve Tyler

• elephant
• difficult
• many

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. Georg C. Lichtenberg