Jerome Frank Quotes

#1. The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

Jerome Frank

#2. Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.

Jerome Frank

#3. To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.

Jerome Frank

#4. Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.

Jerome Frank

#5. The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile.

Jerome Frank

#6. To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism.

Jerome Frank

#7. Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

Jerome Frank

#8. Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

Jerome Frank

#9. Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Jerome Frank