Jury Quotes - Page 13

• The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

  David Rosenfelt

  Believe, Ideas, Trials

  David Rosenfelt (2011). “One Dog Night: An Andy Carpenter Novel”, p.99, Minotaur Books

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• If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

  Robert Breault

  Self, Judging, Asks

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• Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Our World, Perfection

  "The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Only His Wings Remained", p. 54, 1985.

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• But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

  Philip Guston

  Art, Self, Judging

  'ARTnews Annual', Artnews Associates., October 1966.

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• And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

  Thomas Hood

  New Year, Regret, Holiday

  Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood (1842). “The New Monthly Magazine”, p.2

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• When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sports, People, Looks

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.34, Vintage

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• We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Thinking, Games

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• Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Law, Duty

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• Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same verdict. How certain thou art to die, thou knowest; how soon to die, thou knowest not. Measure not thy life with the longest; that were to piece it out with flattery. Thou canst name no living man, not the sickest, which thou art sure shall die before thee.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Art, Blessing

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• Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

  Enid Bagnold

  Funny, Humorous, Judging

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Funny, Success, Humorous

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• Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Science, Men

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• He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friendship, Justice, Judging

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1243, Delphi Classics

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• If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

  Kenesaw Mountain Landis

  Baseball, Peers, Guilty

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• Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.

  Conan O'Brien

  Stories, Trials, Today

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• [When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Vacation, Law, Would Be

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• You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.

  Lucy Stone

  Sex, Long, Peers

  "History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2". Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1882.

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• Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read much doesn't know much. And a nation that doesn't know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box and the voting booth...The challenge, therefore, is to convince future generations of children that carrying a book is more rewarding than carrying guns.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Book, Reading

  Jim Trelease (2001). “The Read-aloud Handbook”, Alloybooks

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• Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Orchids, Evolution, Made

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Numbers, Body

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• Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?

  Kent Hovind

  School, Scary, Textbooks

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• But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

  Carl Sagan

  Details Of Life, Atheism, Poor Planning

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.

  Edward Jenks

  Men, May, Bills

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Thinking, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.82

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• The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

  Shana Alexander

  Drama, Aquariums, Play

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