Umpires Quotes - Page 2

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

No damn man kills me and lives.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Guilt says I've done something wrong; ... shame says there is something wrong with me. Guilt says I've made a mistake; ... shame says I am a mistake. Guilt says what did was not good; ... shame says I am no good.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

You can't applaud a referee.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.