Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOIt 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.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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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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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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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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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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