Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
“Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.” Benjamin Cardozo
“Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.” Benjamin Cardozo
“The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.” Benjamin Cardozo
“The difference is no less real because it is of degree.” Benjamin Cardozo
“Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.” 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 … Read More
“The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.” Benjamin Cardozo
“There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.” Benjamin Cardozo
“In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, … Read More
“Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.” Benjamin Cardozo
“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 … Read More
“Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.” Benjamin Cardozo
“Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.” Benjamin Cardozo
“We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.” Benjamin Cardozo
“I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.” Benjamin Cardozo
“No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.” Benjamin Cardozo
“The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.” Benjamin … Read More
“Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.” Benjamin Cardozo
“Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.” Benjamin Cardozo
“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 … Read More
“The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.” Benjamin Cardozo