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206 Jurist Quotes

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Cannot Club Cult Developed
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One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.

Absolute Anyone Cannot Ends
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Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

Available Causes Discard Favour
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We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
Firstly Indians Lastly
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Life should be great rather than long.
Great Life Long Rather
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Different Eminent Great Man
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Achieve Avail Freedom Law
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Body Gets Law Medicine
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Both Die Idea Men
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Come End India Integrated
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Between Closest Friends Husband
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Equality Fraternity Liberty Like
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Aim Cultivation Existence Human
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Compared Courageous Government Man
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Admit Another Class Country
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Alone Being Born Development
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Conflict Discrimination Full Fundamental
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Conviction Discontent Enough Importance
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Act Cannot Ceases Essence
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Constitution Denies Different Embodied
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Always Been Come Compel
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Based Ethics Good Held
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Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

Abolish Abolition Aim Alone
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
Incompatible Religion Slavery
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Consider Essential Foundation Hold
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

Base Cannot Democracy Does
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An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.

Change Channels Full Ideal
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

Associated Attitude Democracy Essentially
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

Bad Constitution Good However
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If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

Any Could Diva Give
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

About Care Fight Join
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If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Change Change Things Going Hold
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It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
Liberation Men Women Freedom
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Any Chances Could Crazy
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So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Hope Today Tomorrow Writing
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Court Did Go Had
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She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Able Become Career Did
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
Generation Next Next Generation Raising
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Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Bringing Equality Generation Men
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I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Choice Controlling Equality Essential
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Autonomy Controlling Denying Equality
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Abortion Control Emphasis Must
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Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Apparent Arizona Capital Constitutional
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Court Like Only Woman
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Conceal Hold Incumbent Material
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I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

Constitution Drafting Look U.S.Constitution
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Day Hope Law One Day
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I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president.

Country Donald Donald Trump Imagine
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Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Avoid Candidate Commenting Judges
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You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Caring Given Had Help
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