Justice Cardozo Quotes & Sayings

He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come. He couldn't think what else to do. He — Lev Grossman

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

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

Some of them screamed for locks of his hair, to which the blushing general replied, "Really, ladies, this is the first time I was ever surrounded by the enemy! — S.C. Gwynne

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation. — Linda McCartney

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

political life came to be dominated by a pattern of interest-group politics that the era's political scientists came to call "pluralist," a form of democracy marked more by competition among organizations and lobbyists than by a sense of the public interest. — Ira Katznelson

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me. — Elizabeth Edwards

Just stand aside and watch yourself go by; Think of yourself as 'he' instead of 'I'. — Strickland Gillilan

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart — Mother Teresa

Always choose Paris. — Lauren Conrad

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

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

for we all have
our own

twilights
and mists
and abysses

to return to. — Sanober Khan

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

If anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Someone from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail. — Stephen Colbert

The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug. — Russell Simmons