“The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.” MenWayHumansHeartAgeTodayLawDiesNamesSoundAirDogHe ManPersonalityDignityStonesBreathsVictimOur TimeExecutionersHuman Personality Author:Sadegh Hedayat
“More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.” YearsMayLittlesFeelingsLastsLawLostSpeakForceCausesVoiceHoursKeysDignityMajorityConvictionWarmMoodPhrasesCharacteristicsDissentMorrowTriumphantThrough The YearsElevation Author:Benjamin Cardozo
“That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.” WellsLawPoliticalNationsPresidentJusticeRepublicanConcernDignityConstitutionPaidCourtIntellectExpectedSupremeObligationFormerSupreme CourtTributePartisansTenureJohn PaulFramersReprisalGerald Ford Author:Gerald R. Ford
“I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.” ThinkingChildrenHomeLawDeserveDignityAgreeProtected Author:Martin O'Malley
“I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.” IfsThinkingBelieveHumansPersonsDoneLawLyingI BelieveWorstPlanetsDignityLiarsKillersThievesWorst ThingsHuman Dignity Author:Bryan Stevenson
“When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights.” DoeBodyTogetherLawPurposeIndividualCommonRightsCitizensExerciseAuthorityFindingsDignityIncreaseIndependenceObedienceProtectedSubmitCitizenshipRecognizingConfinedDecreaseRenderingCommon Purpose Author:Calvin Coolidge
“Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.” PeopleIfsGivingWritingBelieveLittlesRealBeautifulLawForgetOpinionWorryTraditionDignityFakeExceptionGet AwayReviewsLionsImaginaryTailsTwistsEtiquetteIn-lawsJudicialPiousBrethrenReedsBreachFootnotes Author:Fred Rodell