Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
1. "Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."
Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"
Other categories: Justice
2. "When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!"
Shana Alexander, "State-by-State Guide to Women`s Legal Rights"
Other categories: Marriage
3. "The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. "
Henry David Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts"
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Human
4. "There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents - if the term is to be used at all."
Bernadette McAliskey
Other categories: Family and Loneliness
5. "If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers."
Charles Dickens, "The Old Curiosity Shop"
Other categories: Good and Evil
6. "Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society."
E. L. Doctorow
7. "Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both."
George Bernard Shaw, "Misalliance"
Other categories: Authority, Government
8. "Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you."
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9. "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
Francis Bacon, "Essays"
Other categories: Justice -:- Anger
10. "The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal."
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), "Epistolae ex Ponto"
Other categories: Forgiveness
11. "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
Benjamin Franklin
Other categories: Authority, Government
12. "Petty laws breed great crimes."
Ouida (Marie Louise De La Ramée), "Wisdom, Wit and Pathos"
13. "Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in."
Edmund Burke
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
14. "Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty."
John D. Rockefeller
Other categories: Justice -:- Various
15. "Crime does not pay ... as well as politics."
Alfred E. Newman
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
16. "Appeal: v.t. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
17. "A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
Spanish proverb
18. "Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black."
Danish proverb
Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Truth and Falsity
19. "No one should be judge in his own case."
Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"
Other categories: Justice
20. "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
Theodore Roosevelt
Other categories: Education
21. "The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused."
Hermann Göring
Other categories: Peace and War
22. "A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."
Ramsey Clark
Other categories: Human
23. "Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents."
Jean-Luc Godard
Other categories: Art and Culture
24. "I never speak ill of dead people or live judges."
Edwin W. Edwards
Other categories: Life and Death
25. "You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun."
Al Capone
Other categories: Various
26. "The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."
Erich Fromm
Other categories: Authority, Government
27. "War is a crime which involves all other crimes."
Henry Brougham
Other categories: Peace and War
28. "International law is that law which the wicked do not obey and the righteous do not enforce."
Abba Eban
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
29. "One does not learn how to die by killing others."
François-René de Chateaubriand
Other categories: Life and Death
30. "A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself."
Henry Brougham
31. "Fascism is capitalism plus murder."
Upton Sinclair
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
32. "If you talk to gangsters long enough, you'll find out that they're just as bad as respectable people."
Murray Kempton
Other categories: Good and Evil
33. "Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."
St. Thomas Aquinas, "Summa Theologiae"
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Good and Evil
34. "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."
Edmund Burke
Other categories: Nature and Animals
35. "The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law."
Denis Diderot
36. "If lawyers had been present on Mount Sinai, the Ten Commandments would have twelve hundred amendments, all summing to the conclusion: The rich may ignore the rules, the poor will be hanged if they violate the smallest subordinate clause."
Robert Anton Wilson
Other categories: Richness and Money
37. "If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place."
George Savile
38. "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
Aristotle
Other categories: Richness and Money
39. "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
Robert Lee Frost
40. "I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters."
John Keats
41. "A bad agreement is better than a good lawyer."
Italian proverb
42. "War makes thieves, and peace hangs them."
George Herbert
Other categories: Peace and War
43. "A good lawyer, an evil neighbor."
proverb, (English, Spanish, French)
44. "There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
Hubert Humphrey
Other categories: Justice
45. "Law is a reflection and a source of prejudice. It both enforces and suggests forms of bias."
Diane B. Schulder
46. "Let the punishment match the offense."
Marcus Tullius Cicero, "De Legibus"
47. "Lawyer (n): Larval stage of Politician."
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Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
48. "A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. "
Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"
49. "Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god."
Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"
Other categories: Authority, Government
50. "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Man who was Thursday"
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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