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

Ramsey Clark

Quotations about: Human

2. "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

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

Edwin W. Edwards

Quotations about: Life and Death

4. "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

5. "The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."

Erich Fromm

Quotations about: Authority, Government

6. "War is a crime which involves all other crimes."

Henry Brougham

Quotations about: Peace and War

7. "International law is that law which the wicked do not obey and the righteous do not enforce."

Abba Eban

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

8. "One does not learn how to die by killing others."

François-René de Chateaubriand

Quotations about: Life and Death

9. "A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself."

Henry Brougham

10. "Fascism is capitalism plus murder."

Upton Sinclair

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

11. "If you talk to gangsters long enough, you'll find out that they're just as bad as respectable people."

Murray Kempton

Quotations about: Good and Evil

12. "Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."

St. Thomas Aquinas, "Summa Theologiae"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Good and Evil

13. "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

Edmund Burke

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

14. "The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law."

Denis Diderot

15. "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

Quotations about: Richness and Money

16. "If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place."

George Savile

17. "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

Aristotle

Quotations about: Richness and Money

18. "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

Robert Lee Frost

19. "I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters."

John Keats

20. "A bad agreement is better than a good lawyer."

Italian proverb

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21. "War makes thieves, and peace hangs them."

George Herbert

Quotations about: Peace and War

22. "A good lawyer, an evil neighbor."

proverb, (English, Spanish, French)

23. "There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."

Hubert Humphrey

Quotations about: Justice

24. "Law is a reflection and a source of prejudice. It both enforces and suggests forms of bias."

Diane B. Schulder

25. "Let the punishment match the offense."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "De Legibus"

26. "Lawyer (n): Larval stage of Politician."

Anon.

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

27. "A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. "

Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

28. "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"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

29. "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"

30. "Laws catch flies and let hornets go free."

English proverb

31. "A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his own property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers."

Samuel Butler

32. "A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial."

English proverb

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

33. "Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Justice

34. "Punishment is justice for the unjust."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Justice

35. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

36. "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Questions sur l'Encyclopédie"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

37. "When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Contarini Fleming"

38. "Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

George Bernard Shaw

39. "There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action."

Clarence Darrow

40. "Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order."

Anon.

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

41. "The customs of your tribe are not laws of nature."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

42. "Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

43. "There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Justice -:- Good and Evil

44. "The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."

Michel de Montaigne

45. "Useless laws weaken the necessary laws."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

46. "Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"

47. "Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Authority, Government

48. "Lawyer - One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation."

Henry Louis Mencken

49. "An unjust law is no law at all."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Justice

50. "Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

Jonathan Swift

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