A Quote by Benjamin Cardozo

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Benjamin Cardozo

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Benjamin Cardozo
American - Judge
May 24, 1870 - July 9, 1938

The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

Jane Austen

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

William S. Burroughs

Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

S. D Gordon

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

William Arthur Ward

God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed...It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.

George Hodges (theologian)

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Blaise Pascal

The American people love immigration. They just want it obeyed. They want the laws obeyed. They want there to be assimilation.

Rush Limbaugh

to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

Bob Marley

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.

Christiane Amanpour

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

Bernhard Schlink

I know what my strengths and weaknesses are on the pitch. My duty is to be risk averse.

Xabi Alonso

The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.