Defines Quote by Benjamin N. Cardozo Download Open image “The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.” — Benjamin N. Cardozo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defines Duty Perceived Responsibility Risk
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Duty is an act of obedience stemming from respect, whilst willing desire is an act of freedom. To do something out of obedience is… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the… — George Hodges (theologian Copy Share Image
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being. — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
“When you suddenly command some unusual, unexpected course of action, then even if it is something you have hitherto forbidden, even if for the time being you conceal the reason for your behest, and even if it contravenes the accepted norms of a human society, can we doubt that it is right to obey, seeing that a human society is… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay,… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
“You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed. You will study… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing. — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
The fact is, there's no single magic number that defines profitability for a game. — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
“No love defines us as much as the losses we have made in its name.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
There's so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really,… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person -… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around. — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
