The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. — Barbara Brown Taylor 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one… — Leo Tolstoy 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
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
My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the… — Sandra Day O'Connor 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
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
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann 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
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
“in our democratic societies, there is nothing that is not regulated. Arab jurists taught me something that I liked very much. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question. From… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
“Gerber, who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman court decisions, points to examples of Ottoman muftis (official jurists) who, despite being paid by… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some liberal interest groups have come out in full force and have attempted to paint Judge [Samuel] Alito to be an extremist… — Chuck Grassley 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
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
(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
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
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university… — Carl Friedrich Gauss 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
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
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
Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country. — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and… — Martin Luther 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 of theology.) This is often associated with Arminian theology stemming from the great Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius. However, the view was taken up by [Jonathan] Edwards's…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f0/oliver-d-crisp-12863_disciple_there-is-the-view-i-call-penal-non-subst_2083716.jpg)
![“A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination…” quote by Andrew Dickson White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9f0/andrew-dickson-white-24254_argument_a-new-danger-now-beset-him-grotius-the-d_2243843.jpg)
![“Gerber, who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman court decisions, points to examples of Ottoman muftis (official jurists) who, despite being paid by the government, “did not hesitate to speak out against the government when [they] came face to face with an injustice.” quote by Mustafa Akyol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/790/mustafa-akyol-15064_face-to-face_gerber-who-studied-seventeenth-and-eight_22267.jpg)
![“If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/808/thomas-jefferson-43_body_if-god-has-made-it-a-law-in-the-nature-o_2482448.jpg)
![“Some liberal interest groups have come out in full force and have attempted to paint Judge [Samuel] Alito to be an extremist and to be an activist. They've criticized a nominee who has, from what I see described by these lawyers and fellow judges, a reputation of being a restrained jurist…” quote by Chuck Grassley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f6/chuck-grassley-12398_activist_some-liberal-interest-groups-have-come-o_2603393.jpg)
