Top 1200 Judicial Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law.

There are places where there is more power. Just as there is more power in the chakras, there is more power in certain places. We call them places of power. If you spend time in these places, it increases your vibratory power.

For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely to make the yoke comfortable. Where some have power, others do not, and the two classes persist. A free society is where all have power-power over and responsibility for their own lives, power and reason to respect the lives of others. This is also a society without classes, a society of human beings, not rulers and the ruled.

The FCC is a quasi-judicial body. It is supposed to undertake this period of public comment with a degree of seriousness and respect.

There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

[On power:] Some people really have almost a disdain for that word. They feel it is alien to conscience. Power for power's sake, no. But the positive use of power for positive purposes is very important. You have to understand that. You've got to have a seat at the policy table if you want to make a difference.

This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.

The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

The greatest power in the universe is the power of unity, of oneness. All other powers are secondary. It is the only the only power that outlasts death. Death is the power of separativity; it separates us.

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

South Korea is a vigorous democracy, with strong judicial institutions and a commitment to the rule of law.

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.

It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power.

The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not then be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth only through his own self and negates all other truth outside of it - is bound to become more malignant when he has power. Power then breeds an intensification of all this because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

Over the years, Judicial Watch has called out many White House conflicts of interest.

When it comes to judicial nominations, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are fond of reminding Republicans that elections have consequences.

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.

We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge].

Without any direction from Congress, our judicial branch has unilaterally created and defined qualified immunity.

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves.

The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.

Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.

I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

You can be sure that Judicial Watch is investigating and monitoring the responses of our government to the coronavirus threat.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

A lot of people profess to have power and it is very minor astral power. They do get power over you, not because they have any intrinsic power, but because your fear immobilizes you and makes you do a bad job.

A well-functioning judicial or education system is just as much part of the wealth of a nation as its roads, ports and factories.

Judicial Watch's FOIA lawsuits have already shown the Obama State Department was corruptly targeting President Trump.

The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority.

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.

Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.

Judicial Watch has a massive project to force states and counties across the nation to clean up their voter rolls.