“In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'” IfsYearsStillsHandsCultureJusticeAttitudeCompassionConceptsScotlandVengeanceJustice System Author:Keith O'Brien
“When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.” WorldJusticeAttitudePureNewsMarkRuinsDistinctionVengeanceWorld News Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility.” MindMightMovingLawPassionJusticeBehindsAttitudeQualityFrontsHumilityHabitJudgmentCapableTrainingAreasCapacityCourtIndividualityIngredientsTemperamentDetachmentDominating Book:Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution Source: Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution
“Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was assumed to be a fifth column in its midst... Ministers believedm with some justice, that Catholics retained an attachment to their exiled co-religionists, the princes of the House of Stuart. After the Battle of Culloden had confirmed Jacobitism's insignificance, however, government attitudes towards Catholicism began perceptibly and logically to relax.” GovernmentHouseJusticeAttitudeCasesBattleProtectCatholicMinistersRelaxMidstAttachmentCatholicismLegislationFifthColumnsReformationProtestantsBritish HistoryInsignificance Author:Linda Colley
“... The popular attitude toward the administration of justice should be one of respect and confidence. Bureaucratic, purely official justice, can never receive such confidence. The one way to secure it is to give the citizen-body itself a share in the administration of justice. And that is what jury-trial does.” WayGivingShouldDoeBodyJusticeAttitudeShareCitizensTrialsSecureOne WayAdministrationOfficialsJuryTrial By JuryAdministration Of Justice Author:John Henry Wigmore
“The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.” MadeJusticeAttitudeJudgingAuthorityJudgmentWeaknessNeighborRidiculousSuspectsTribes Author:Paul Valery
“My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.” KnowsMenWould BeChristianJusticeAttitudeHe ManJudgingCharityFruitAtheistProportionOrthodoxRelevantAgnostic Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.” PeopleShouldCountryWholeLawJusticeAttitudePracticeMankindCryDutyTrainingTraditionDignityBasesRegardInjusticeProfessionDiscriminationHonorableUnjustJustice For All Author:Nelson Mandela
“Obama's attitude toward the rule of law is apparent in the words he used to describe what he is looking for in a nominee to replace Justice David Souter. He wants 'someone who understands justice is not just about some abstract legal theory,' he said, but someone who has 'empathy.' In other words, judges should decide cases so that the right people win, not according to the rule of law.” PeopleWantShouldSaidLawUsedWinningJusticeAttitudeCasesJudgingTheoryEmpathyAbstractRule Of Law Author:Michael Barone