Jurisprudence famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties, and end combat operations as soon as possible. These are provisions recognized by almost all authorities on international jurisprudence.
-- Bhikkhu Bodhi

#Party #Trying #Jurisprudence
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
-- Edward Coke

#Light #Law #Jurisprudence
Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.
-- Gerolamo Cardano

#Art #Suffering #Jurisprudence
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
-- Henry James Sumner Maine

#Jurisprudence #Institutions #Humans
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
-- Herbert Read

#Firsts #Principles #Jurisprudence
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
-- Herbert Read

#Law #Jurisprudence #Literature
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.
-- Joseph Sobran

#Mean #Games #Jurisprudence
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.
-- Victoria Woodhull

#Reform #Citizens #Jurisprudence
Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor

#Doubt #Liberty #Jurisprudence

You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your boots, youre scared to death -- take the first step forward. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Being afraid is not a problem; its doing nothing when you feel afraid.
Love and Dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the Goodness of our Maker, and they shall never be taken from us without end. We have of nature to love and we have of grace to love: and we have of nature to dread and we have of grace to dread.
As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled "Kazeno Komoriuta" and I have recorded my piano adaptation of this song and honestly I couldn't expect that it would be so difficult and challenging for me to perform my piano version of this beautiful song.
We have no proper understanding of the relationship between conscious thought and conscious sensation. The various forms of thought and sensation are underpinned by very different neural mechanisms; so how can the neural correlate of their conscious natures be the same? I don't think we are yet in a position to make such speculations. To make progress, we have to have a good conception of the phenomenology of consciousness, among other things.
Both my parents were big readers.
If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.
The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish.
I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album." I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs.