Impartial Judgment Quotes

The judges must be many, for, if few, they will always follow the behests of the few.

I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don't want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

Get out of the way of Justice. She is blind.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

I want my work to be judged, not me.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

Were I confirmed as a judge, I would decide cases according to the rule of law beginning to end.

Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike.

If a judge does his job right, you [the observer] will never know how he personally feels about the policies he may have to rule on.

I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has beenperjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn't make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what's expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage.