Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOInaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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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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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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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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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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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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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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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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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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