Quotations for Consideration

• “For those who have faith, who believe, – No evidence or proof is necessary: For those who don’t – No evidence or proof is sufficient.” – Old Saying
• “Now it has become clear to me, that it cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another. In our troubled world, so full of contradiction, the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all. Perhaps in this way the door may be opened again whose key has been lost.” – Emperor Akbar the Great
• “Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.” – Henry S. Haskin
• “Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.” – Epicurus (341 BC – 270 BC)
• “It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.” – Earl Warren
• “The life of Law is not logic, but experience” – Oliver Wendell Holmes.
• “If we desire respect for the Law, we must first make the Law respectable.” – Louis D. Brandeis
• “The electorate’s consent for a Government is no license to bring in immoral and unjust laws…therefore the Government must keep in mind not only the text of the Constitution, but also, its founding principles. People had not surrendered basic Human Rights to the State even at the time of the social contract that brought the State into existence. In fact, the State was created only for the protection and preservation of these Rights that every human being is born with. Constitutions merely acknowledge these Rights rather than confer them. The fundamental rights in the Constitution limit the State’s power. from where the greatest threat to such Rights comes from. Today, by accepting that Laws passed even by the Legislative Assemblies could no more be challenged in the Courts as violating the Constitution, the Courts have given such Legislatures a status higher than that of the Constitution.” – Faizan Mustafa.

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