Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 10
“One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.”
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
Patrick Henry (1736–1799) attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the United States
Compare: "You can never plan the future by the past", Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, Vol. iv. p. 55.
1770s, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" (1775)
“No one should question the faith of others, for no human can judge the ways of God.”
Haile Selassie (1892–1975) Emperor of Ethiopia
Not reliably sourced, as this has thus far been found only in a Rastafarian publication http://www.himchurch.org/index.html on the internet which conflates several different statements by Haile Selassie made between 1948 and 1966 with some made by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan which were merely quoted by Selassie in 1965. <br class="br">Disputed
“We know the axes on which we should judge, and age has never been one.”
China Miéville book The Dusty Hat
The Dusty Hat (p. 203)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)
“No one should be judged by the actions of others!”
Richard Sherman (American football) (1988) American football player
Stardom Doesn’t Change Where You’re From (April 02, 2014)
Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) English theatre critic and writer
Review of Le Misanthrope, by Molière, at the Piccadilly (1962), p. 117
Tynan Right and Left (1967)
“No one should be judge in his own cause.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 545
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
