1910s, California's Policies Proclaimed (Feb. 21, 1911)
Context: When a judge decides a constitutional question, when he decides what the people as a whole can or cannot do, the people should have the right to recall that decision if they think it wrong. We should hold the judiciary in all respect; but it is both absurd and degrading to make a fetish of a judge or of anyone else.
“It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
Source: War and Peace
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Leo Tolstoy 456
Russian writer 1828–1910Related quotes
“I wanted to reach what was right on the right paths. And so I began to live mistaken.”
Quise alcanzar lo derecho por sendas derechas. Y así comencé a vivir equivocado.
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