Quotes by Benjamin N. Cardozo

Benjamin N. Cardozo

American lawyer and jurist

Lived from: 1870 - 1938

Born: 24 may 1870 Died: 9 july 1938

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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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  • The judicial process, as was said at the outset of these lectures, is a process of search and comparison, and little else.
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  • The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
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  • The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
    Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo
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  • 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.
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  • The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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  • There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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  • There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
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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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  • To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.
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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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  • What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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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.
    Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses
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