the law
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 quotes from Abbie Hoffman
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 more sayings from Felix Frankfurter
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 quotes from Dorothy Day
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 thoughts from Will Rogers
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 views from Robert Louis Stevenson
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 more thoughts from William E. Gladstone
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 thoughts from Addison Mizner
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 more sayings from Henry Miller
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 thoughts from Ellen Key
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
68 views from Samuel Butler
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 more quotes from Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 other quotes from Joseph Conrad
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 views from William Dunbar
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
11 more quotes from Robert E. Lee
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 other wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 quotes from Arthur Baer
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
11 quotes from James Joyce
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 more wisdom & wit from Francois Rabelais
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 wisdom & wit from Charles Lamb
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 wisdom & wit from Jeremy Bentham
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 wisdom & wit from Charles Lamb
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
2 quotes from Sonny Bono
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 quotes from Robert Casey
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
2 other quotes from Nelson Algren
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
50 other quotes from Robert Frost
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 thoughts from John Lothrop Motley
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 thoughts from George Herbert
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 quotes from George Herbert
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 more quotes from Clarence Darrow
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 other quotes from Honore de Balzac
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
24 sayings from Joseph Addison
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 views from John Clayton
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
8 views from Bobby Darin
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
3 other views from Frederic Bastiat
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
17 wisdom & wit from Calvin Coolidge
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 more wisdom & wit from Mary Roberts Rinehart
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 more wisdom & wit from Jean de la Bruyere
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 more sayings from H. G. Wells
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
3 quotes from Orson Pratt
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 more quotes from Orson Pratt