Judgmental People Quotes

“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them”
― Elie Wiesel

“It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“My request today is simple. Today. Tomorrow. Next week. Find somebody, anybody, that’s different than you. Somebody that has made you feel ill-will or even hateful. Somebody whose life decisions have made you uncomfortable. Somebody who practices a different religion than you do. Somebody who has been lost to addiction. Somebody with a criminal past. Somebody who dresses “below” you. Somebody with disabilities. Somebody who lives an alternative lifestyle. Somebody without a home.

Somebody that you, until now, would always avoid, always look down on, and always be disgusted by.

Reach your arm out and put it around them.

And then, tell them they’re all right. Tell them they have a friend. Tell them you love them.

If you or I wanna make a change in this world, that’s where we’re gonna be able to do it. That’s where we’ll start.

Every. Single. Time.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Open your mind to the world and the many different ways that can be found in it, before making hasty judgments of others. After all, the very same thing that you judge from where you are— may very well be something totally different in meaning on the other side of the world. The problem with making hasty judgments is that it will emphasize your ignorance at the end of the day.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

“Don’t we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be… doing that has nothing to do with enabling them or accepting what they do as okay by us. It has nothing to do with encouraging them in their practice of what you or I might feel or believe is wrong vs right.

It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Todas las familias felices

“The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.”
― Denis Waitley

“I think it doesn’t matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn’t matter if you or I think anything is a sin. It doesn’t matter if homosexuality is a sin or not. In fact, it doesn’t matter if anything anybody else does is a sin or not.

Because sin is a very personal thing! It always has been and it always will be!

And it has nothing to do with love.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“On Maturity


"You bring people down so that you can rise up, you obviously do not know how to soar." – To the people who point their fingers to others so to hide their deficiencies”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Aether

“One mistake is all they see.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Often, the best gifts we would ever receive in life are wrapped in the worst packages.”
― Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“You're afraid of people's judgment…What do you care! People are like dogs; whenever anyone makes a wrong move they set up a holler. They bark and then they stop--and wait for someone else to go wrong.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Live and Remember

“Beware those who sacrifice your happiness
on the altar of their beliefs.”
― John Mark Green

“Let them, let them scratch where it itches, it's a real human itch to gossip, to go over someone's bones until they're picked clean. They can't live without it. And you just keep quiet, do your work, and don't taunt them--they'll stop sooner. And then it'll be someone else's turn, and you'll be with the others again. Is this the first time? The very thing they blame you for, they'll praise you for later. People…”
― Valentin Rasputin, Live and Remember

“Be careful listening to people criticizing something they have never attempted.”
― Dana L. Stringer

“We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

“Don’t make snap decisions, good or bad, about someone. Before forming an opinion, figure out what makes a person tick. Sam in Blackhorse Road A Novel”
― Merida Johns, Blackhorse Road: A novel of deception and forgiveness and love gained and lost

“Discernment has a doppelgänger, and her name is Suspicion.”
― Criss Jami

“The girl you killed? How do you know she wasn't more messed up than you? Or that boy? I know it sounds stupid, but you can't know! You can't judge them! No one has the right to decide who gets to live or die. Not even you.”
― Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost

“Life is short,
Assume less, ask more.
Breath is short,
Chase less, cherish more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Everybody says
She's got
a heart of stone
and a head of steel,
Yet her sweetness,
Believe it or not,
No one
could ever steal!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Dearer Mirror

“It is a very awkward thing to try to wear our neighbours' shoes. We pity them if we are pinched; it doesn't strike us that the shoes may just fit their own wearers.”
― Dorothea Townshend

“Life is too short to be wasted on judgmental whim. Put your judgment aside, and have some ice-cream.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“First impressions aren't always everything; beneath the surface lies an abundance of adventure for those willing to take a deeper look.”
― Baptiste Tricoire

“It is a curious habit when people look down at others, from below them.”
― Jack Freestone

“Once, I was flying as usual.
Some people called me ill.
I, too, for a while, Believed them...

Then I saw,
Their sophisticated cage!”
― Amogh Swamy, On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage

“Often arrogance is a defense mechanism
against the possibility of judgment.
Though it sounds righteous, most times
it makes us the evil we try to prevent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“As a crutch, some obsessively concern themselves with the personal lives of others, as an act of denial from their own personal life.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“A mirror does not judge when you look at it. It reflects who you are or what you are becoming.”
― Eduvie Donald