The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor serves as a model Supreme Court justice, widely recognized as a jurist with practical values, a sense of… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin Copy Share Image
I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself.… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
Judge Samuel Alito was born and raised in the great state of New Jersey. Our state has a legacy of producing outstanding… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the… — Irving Kaufman Copy Share Image
(H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is the view I call penal non-substitution, or the penal example view. (It is also called the Governmental View in textbooks… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
