As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary

William S. Burroughs
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day. - Albert Camus

  2. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. - S.N. Goenka

  3. Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news. - Shannon L. Alder

  4. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. - Anonymous

  5. When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be? - Jay Woodman

More Quotes By William S. Burroughs
  1. There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

  2. Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

  3. Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

  4. A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

  5. The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

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