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