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1. "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on."

Samuel Goldwyn

Quotations about: Richness and Money

2. "Nature is the only murderer who is not convicted."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

3. "Wealthy criminals are the only refuge for morally bankrupt attorneys."

Johnny Cochran

Quotations about: Richness and Money

4. "Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."

Jean Genet, "Notes for The Screens"

Quotations about: Human

5. "Court Room Trial: Manipulation of the facts by two High-Priced salesmen, each attempting to sell his own version of the truth."

Anon.

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

6. "How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"

Elizabeth Gaskell, "Wives and Daughters"

Quotations about: Justice

7. "An unjust law is itself a species of violence."

Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Quotations about: Justice

8. "Nature has given women so much power that the law has wisely given them very little."

Samuel Johnson

Quotations about: Power and Weakness -:- Woman and Man

9. "The law says you can have only one spouse. This is called monotony."

Anon.

Quotations about: Marriage

10. "Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould, "Modes and Morals"

Quotations about: Life and Death

11. "Don't confuse what you got a right to do with what's right to do."

William Bennett

Quotations about: Good and Evil

12. "The difference between outlaws and inlaws is outlaws are wanted."

Anon.

Quotations about: Justice

13. "The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes."

Stanley Kubrick

Quotations about: History and Nations

14. "The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

15. "What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"

Bertolt Brecht, "The Threepenny Opera"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

16. "Law stands mute in the midst of arms."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Pro Milone"

Quotations about: Peace and War

17. "Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."

Jeremy Bentham

18. "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Good and Evil

19. "If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause."

Charles Morgan

20. "Crime is naught but misdirected energy."

Emma Goldman, "Anarchism and Other Essays"

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21. "Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them."

Anthony de Mello

Quotations about: Love

22. "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."

Raymond Chandler, "The Long Goodbye"

Quotations about: Justice

23. "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Happiness

24. "It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Justice

25. "Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

Edmund Burke

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

26. "It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"

May Sarton

Quotations about: Love

27. "Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."

George Savile

28. "The law often allows what honor forbids."

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

29. "Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals."

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Time and Passing

30. "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"

Quotations about: Justice

31. "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"

Quotations about: Marriage

32. "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"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude -:- Human

33. "There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents - if the term is to be used at all."

Bernadette McAliskey

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

34. "If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers."

Charles Dickens, "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

35. "Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society."

E. L. Doctorow

36. "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"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

37. "Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you."

Anon.

38. "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"

Quotations about: Justice -:- Anger

39. "The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), "Epistolae ex Ponto"

Quotations about: Forgiveness

40. "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Authority, Government

41. "Petty laws breed great crimes."

Ouida (Marie Louise De La Ramée), "Wisdom, Wit and Pathos"

42. "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

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

43. "Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty."

John D. Rockefeller

Quotations about: Justice -:- Various

44. "Crime does not pay ... as well as politics."

Alfred E. Newman

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

45. "Appeal: v.t. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

46. "A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."

Spanish proverb

47. "Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black."

Danish proverb

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Truth and Falsity

48. "No one should be judge in his own case."

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"

Quotations about: Justice

49. "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

Quotations about: Education

50. "The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused."

Hermann Göring

Quotations about: Peace and War

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