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

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Other categories: Truth and Falsity

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

Elizabeth Gaskell, "Wives and Daughters"

Other categories: Justice

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

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

Other categories: Justice

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

Samuel Johnson

Other categories: Power and Weakness -:- Woman and Man

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

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Other categories: Marriage

6. "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"

Other categories: Life and Death

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

William Bennett

Other categories: Good and Evil

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

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Other categories: Justice

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

Stanley Kubrick

Other categories: History and Nations

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

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

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

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

Bertolt Brecht, "The Threepenny Opera"

Other categories: Richness and Money

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Pro Milone"

Other categories: Peace and War

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

Jeremy Bentham

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

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Good and Evil

15. "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

16. "Crime is naught but misdirected energy."

Emma Goldman, "Anarchism and Other Essays"

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

Anthony de Mello

Other categories: Love

18. "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"

Other categories: Justice

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

Benjamin Franklin

Other categories: Happiness

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Justice

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

Edmund Burke

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

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

May Sarton

Other categories: Love

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

George Savile

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

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

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

Henry Louis Mencken

Other categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Time and Passing

26. "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

27. "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

28. "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

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

Bernadette McAliskey

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

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

Charles Dickens, "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Other categories: Good and Evil

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

E. L. Doctorow

32. "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

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

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34. "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

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

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

Other categories: Forgiveness

36. "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

37. "Petty laws breed great crimes."

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

38. "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

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

John D. Rockefeller

Other categories: Justice -:- Various

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

Alfred E. Newman

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

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

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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

Spanish proverb

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

Danish proverb

Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Truth and Falsity

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

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"

Other categories: Justice

45. "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

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

Hermann Göring

Other categories: Peace and War

47. "A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."

Ramsey Clark

Other categories: Human

48. "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

49. "I never speak ill of dead people or live judges."

Edwin W. Edwards

Other categories: Life and Death

50. "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

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