Susan Anton (Susan Ellen Anton) Quotes
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
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We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
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We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.
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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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Judges have their own point of view, and we have to respect them for that. Rather than feeling bad, we respect our judges and their opinions.
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.
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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.
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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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We will see beauty in the outer world when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. And this is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the universe.
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I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.
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This is the problem with stories. Stories always mean something. The question is ... What exactly do they mean?
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.
