Legal Quotes
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Nani Palkhivala – Quotes
“The survival of our democracy and the unity and integrity of the nation depend upon the realisation that constitutional morality is no less essential than constitutional legality. Dharma lives in the hearts of public men; when it dies there, no Constitution, no law, no amendment, can save it” “A democracy without discipline is a democracy…
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Justice Sandra Day O’Connor – Quotes
“The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.” “If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some…
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor – Quotes
“You have to fight every day to protect the rights and opportunities of women and minorities.” “Let me suggest that in any case in which a minority group feels severely aggrieved and desperate enough to turn to violence, society as a whole bears the blame.” “The freedom of speech…is one of the great bulwarks of…
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Fali S. Nariman – Quotes
“One very important thing that young lawyers must know is that when one argues a case and later in the evening you ponder over it and say, that’s what I should have said (but you never said it), that’s the only regret. It could have been the winning point or something you wish you had…
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Law Quotes – Mahatma Gandhi
“There is a higher court than the court of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” “Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally.” “In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.” “An unjust law is itself…
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Top Quotes – Simone Weil – French Philosopher
“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense consists in the ability to choose.” “Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot…
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Quotes
“So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.”~ Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”~ Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “My mother told me to be a lady.…
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