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Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have. -- Ariel Sharon
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. -- Tacitus
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. -- Elihu Root
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. -- Franz Grillparzer
I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd. -- Jan Brewer
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense. -- John Warner
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. -- Albert Pike
They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good. -- Casey Affleck
I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth. -- Bob Edwards
The Dark Knight,' 'The Rocketeer' and definitely the first 'Superman' movie by Richard Donner are the best. I tend to be softer in my judgment about what's a bad movie - I don't think anyone intends to make a bad movie, and sometimes it just doesn't click for some reason. -- Jim Lee
My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life? -- Jonathan Haidt
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it. -- Lysander Spooner
The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights. -- Michael Vick
I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment as to what we can and can't do and whether it's in our interests, or we could afford the resources that it would take to make the situation right. -- Anthony Zinni
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.. -- Tacitus
Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment. -- Mason Cooley
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader. -- Tacitus
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason ! -- William Shakespeare
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty. -- Immanuel Kant
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. -- Friedrich Engels
Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door. -- John Wooden
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. -- Khalil Gibran
Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values. -- Margaret Benson
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . . -- Luther Burbank
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . . -- Socrates
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death. -- Jonathan Swift
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle. -- Jane Austen
What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came. -- Carrie Chapman Catt

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