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“History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.”

Sometimes Law Spirit Social Justice Judging Customs Anxious Rescue Compelling Intuitive Utility Apprehension

Author:Benjamin Cardozo

“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.”

Thinking Moments Order Energy Social Justice History Creating Letters Social Justice Eras Thoughtful Customs Thinker Sheer Vulgar Victorian Social Order

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?”

Justice Customs Unjust

Book:Comedies of Terence

Source: Comedies of Terence

“The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.”

Art Shows Order Justice Revolution Authority Customs Subversion Probing

Book:Pascal Pensées

Source: Pascal Pensées

“The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.”

Dies Justice Customs

Book:The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides