We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice. — Sonia Sotomayor
Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession. — V. R. Krishna Iyer
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. — Jeremy Bentham
Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran. — Shirin Ebadi
Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder. — David Graham Phillips
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief." — Franz Kafka
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. — Warren Earl Burger
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. — Warren E. Burger
The gladsome light of jurisprudence. — Edward Coke
The good lawyer is the great salesman. — Janet Reno
Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession. — Bill Press
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. — Alfred Nobel
I'm concerned with protecting the legal system. — Alexei Navalny
Legalize Quotes
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation. — Ronald Reagan
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Unknown Author
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. — Frederic Bastiat
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis. — Willie Nelson
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. — Eugene V. Debs
I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder. — Harry Patch
Legalize it, and I will advertise it. — Peter Tosh
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! — Sayings
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws. — Thurgood Marshall
While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment. — B. J. Palmer
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. — William Osler
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession. — Edith Stein
Advertising is legalized lying.
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. — Vincent Van Gogh
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. — George Orwell
If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted. — Paul Washer
My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith. — Ibn Arabi
I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will. — Sandra Cisneros
A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth. — Dallas Willard
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. — Prince Charles
Legal Ethics Quotes
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government. — Tacitus
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic. — Barbara Ehrenreich
The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically. — Gad Saad
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal. — Aldo Leopold
Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right. — Marian Wright Edelman
A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability. — Doug Berry
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. — Sidney Poitier
When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists. — Craig Reucassel
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. — Cliff Stearns
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Great Legal Quotes
I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad. — W. C. Fields
The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it. — Martha C. Nussbaum
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. — Nolan Bushnell
Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure. — John Henry Wigmore
The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status. — Anthony Bourdain
I love Viagra. I don't need it, but I tried it. It's a great legal drug. — Kenny Rogers
No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch. — Andrew Tobias
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation. — Lord Acton
I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced. — Bob Ney
When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law. — Leon Jaworski
The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall. — Kevin Spacey
The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it. — F. Lee Bailey
My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession. — John Grisham
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. — Constance Baker Motley
I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were. — Rebecca Hall
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security. — Alexander Herzen
I think the legal profession is getting somewhat corrupted. When it comes to lawyers, I think it's kind of a Catch-22. On one hand, there's so much process, procedure and mess caused by the legal profession. But on the other hand, the only way to sort through all that process, procedure and mess is through the legal profession. — Mike Leach
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions. — Constance Baker Motley
Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible. — William Howard Taft
Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants. — Michael Crichton
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