Lawyer Quotes - Page 11

• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

  Orson Welles

  Law, Exhibitionism, Form

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• Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

  Orson Welles

  Strong Women, Agents, Happened

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• The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

  A. N. Wilson

  Clever, People, Want

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• Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

  Bob Woodward

  Stories, Literature, Late

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Motivational, Veterans Day

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• Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.

  Jimmy Carter

  Weed, Marijuana, Law

  U.S. President in a message to the U.S. Congress, 1977.

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• Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

  Jean Anouilh

  Carpe Diem, Law, Political

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Mean, Law

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

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• A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much" Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much?

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Kids, Night

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• If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.

  Jasper Fforde

  Dream, Believe, Night

  Jasper Fforde (2013). “The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.

  George Orwell

  Kings, Past, Promise

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.

  Daniel Handler

  Country, Europe, Law

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• Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Encouragement, Jobs, School

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Animal, Finding Yourself

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• Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Caring, Enough, Dylan

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

  Victor Hugo

  Expression, Law, Names

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Eye, Men

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.

  Percival Everett

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

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• The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers." "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony to make threats over the phone?" To give Powers his fair due, he got over his shock within a split second. “Try it, asshole. I dare you. My lawyers will have you for lunch.” He clicked off again. I did what any red-blooded American male would do. I called my big, ex-cop ex-boyfriend.

  Josh Lanyon

  Ex Boyfriend, Phones, Voice

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• Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Knights, Doctors, Soldier

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• There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Dean Koontz (2012). “One Door Away from Heaven: A superb thriller of redemption, fear and wonder”, p.466, Hachette UK

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• In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  People, Happy People, Martians

  Edgar Rice Burroughs, Aaron Parrett (2004). “The Martian Tales Trilogy”, p.58, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Beautiful, Mother, Kissing

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.320, Macmillan

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• A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned,” I murmured. Warren—who had once, a long time ago, been a cowboy—snickered and wiggled his bare feet. “It could be the beginning of either a bad joke or a horror story.” “No,” said Kyle, the lawyer, whose head was propped up on my thigh. “If you want a horror story, you have to start out with a werewolf, his gorgeous lover, and a walker.

  Patricia Briggs

  Queens, Cowboy, Horror Stories

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.641, Penguin

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• McIntyre hesitated, and for a moment the tall, gray-haired man looked almost boyish. "After all this time...don't you think you could call me William?" Amy and Dan exchanged glances. As fond as they were of him, they couldn't imagine calling their lawyer by his first name. He saw the hesitation on their faces. "Will?" Amy cleared her throat. Dan fiddled with the new GPS. "How about 'Mac'?" "Mac," Dan said, trying out the name. Mr. McIntyre looked wistful. "I always wanted to be a Mac.

  Judy Blundell

  Men, Thinking, Gps

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