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A human being is a deciding being.
Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
[ ... ] the purifying action of Conscience upsets the legal order.
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views ... The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .
Decide had the same root as suicide and homicide. Decisions felt like little killings. Somebody lost.
Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.
Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
You can't make the right decision, but you can always make the dicision right.
First, I must distinguish between that which always is and never becomes and which is apprehended by reason and reflection, and that which always becomes and never is and is conceived by opinion with the help of sense.
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.
I do not apologize for these terms or, more generally, for discussing judicial thinking in a vocabulary alien to most judges and lawyers. Judicial behavior cannot be understood in the vocabulary that judges themselves use, sometimes mischievously. (11)
Discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-
When in doubt, you face the possibility of deception.. when you are decieved, you face the possibility of diversion... when you are diverted, you face the possibility of disobedience...and these are the D's to every man's Defeat.
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
I missed a lot of decisions. At the time of making such a decision, there was no doubt in my mind as to its correctness. However, a second or two later I felt that I erred and wished I could change my original ruling.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
The mock rationality of the debate conceals the arbitrariness of the will and power at work in its resolution. It
Judgments. A mistake, therefore, of right may become a species
I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
Defenestration" is
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
In frank expression of conflicting opinion lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action; and in suppression lies ordinarily the greatest peril.
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.
Conviction is a fist of stone at the heart of all things. Its form is shaped by sure hands, the detritus quickly swept from view. It is built to withstand, built to defy challenge, and when cornered it fights without honour. There is nothing more terrible than conviction.
Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.
What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.
Even indecision is a decision.
We should use our judgment before coming to a decision.
Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
The argument is at an end.
The quality of a decision cannot be solely judged based on its outcome.
The worst decision is indecision.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
What arises from discretion must be honoured.
Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
Opposites, no judgment can be considered to be final
When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.
Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?
Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
What if Halt were wrong?
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right.
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
Moderation in all things
When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.
There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.
Not to decide is to decide.Decide-- Harvey Cox
Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.
Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time.
I respect the decision of others.
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
an agony of humiliated indecision
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting.
One Decision Makes All the Difference
Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him the gift of reason?
In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
the best way to crush the discussion, is with a decision.
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
One must consider the final result
Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
So far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.
Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.