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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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Quotations about: 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"

Quotations about: Justice


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

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

Quotations about: Justice


4. "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


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

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Quotations about: 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"

Quotations about: Life and Death


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

William Bennett

Quotations about: Good and Evil


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

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Quotations about: Justice


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

Stanley Kubrick

Quotations about: 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"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity


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

Bertolt Brecht, "The Threepenny Opera"

Quotations about: Richness and Money


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

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Pro Milone"

Quotations about: 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

Quotations about: 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

Quotations about: 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"

Quotations about: Justice


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

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Happiness


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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Justice


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

Edmund Burke

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


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

May Sarton

Quotations about: 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

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


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

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: 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"

Quotations about: 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"

Quotations about: 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"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude -:- Human


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

Bernadette McAliskey

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness


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

Charles Dickens, "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Quotations about: 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"

Quotations about: 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"

Quotations about: Justice -:- Anger


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

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

Quotations about: 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

Quotations about: 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

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


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

John D. Rockefeller

Quotations about: Justice -:- Various


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

Alfred E. Newman

Quotations about: 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

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


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

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"

Quotations about: 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

Quotations about: Education


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

Hermann Göring

Quotations about: Peace and War


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

Ramsey Clark

Quotations about: Human


48. "Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents."

Jean-Luc Godard

Quotations about: Art and Culture


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

Edwin W. Edwards

Quotations about: 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

Quotations about: Various

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