Justice Benjamin Cardozo Quotes & Sayings

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true. — Benjamin Cardozo

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs. — Brian Lumley

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go. — Benjamin N. Cardozo

The mysteries of universe are revealed to those who seek to know the truth of their own existence first. — Anjali Chugh

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered. — Benjamin N. Cardozo

To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky. — Pablo Neruda

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. — Benjamin Cardozo

Her daughter's comment amused Emily. 'I didn't know stalking could be a group activity — Gregg Olsen

What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing. — Peter Schjeldahl

If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in 'A Little Night Music' - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best ... need I say more? — Nancy Allen

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. — Benjamin Cardozo

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired. — Malcolm McLaren