Jeremy Bentham Quotes About Lawyers

Quotes about: Lawyers

• The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Law, Attorney, Uncertainty

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected”, p.429

• Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ignorance, Law, Feet

• Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Winning, Lawyer, Sometimes

• Every law is an infraction of liberty.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Funny, Humor, Law

  1789 An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.

• Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Support, Ignorant, Asylums

• In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ambition, Mind, Fiction

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “The Works”, p.199

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