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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
— Benjamin Cardozo
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo
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— Richard A. Posner
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
— Benjamin Cardozo
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
— 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 Cardozo
Danger invites rescue ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
— Benjamin Cardozo
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
— Benjamin Cardozo
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
— Benjamin Cardozo
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
— Benjamin Cardozo
The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.
— Benjamin Cardozo
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.
— Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.
— Benjamin Cardozo
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
— Benjamin Cardozo
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
— Benjamin Cardozo
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
— Benjamin Cardozo
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Law never is, but is always about to be.
— Benjamin Cardozo
