Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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