Lawyer Quotes - Page 35

• I don't want to create responsible shows with lawyers in them. I want to invade people's dreams.

  Joss Whedon

  Dream, People, Want

  "Must-See Metaphysics" by Emily Nussbaum, www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2002.

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• We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Kings, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.303

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• Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

  Robert Kennedy

  Important, Attributes

  1962 Speech at the University of San Francisco Law School, 29 Sep.

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• Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Men, Law

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• When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, Athlete, Fighting

  Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.292, Cosimo, Inc.

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• At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, School, Night

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• It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Justice, Habit

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• Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Use, Logic

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• Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Heart, Law, World

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• Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

  Kin Hubbard

  Money, Law, Pockets

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• Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Law, Enough

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• All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

  Richard Lamm

  Greatness, Engineering, World

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• The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have as [a company] president a practical man, preferably one who has risen from the very bottom of the ladder. Workmen, I find, have far more respect for such men than for collar-and-cuff executives knowing little or nothing about the different kinds of work which have to be done by the workers. Wherever circumstances call for placing a financier or lawyer or a papa's son at the head of a large organization, he should be made chairman or some other title, but not president.

  B. C. Forbes

  Moving, Son, Men

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• Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Damage, Prosperity, Interest

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Wise, Sight, Soul

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

  Walter Wriston

  Army, Men, Principles

  1986 Risk and Other Four-Letters Words.

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• Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone.

  Deborah Rhode

  Stones

  Stanford Law Review, Jan. 1985

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• It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

  Robert Payne

  Position Of Power, Would Be, Garbage

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

  Katharine Tynan

  Looks, Lows, Horrible

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• Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

  Lawrence Lessig

  America, Doe, Needs

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• Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and by the network brass - if you joke about doctors, lawyers, dentists, scientists, bus drivers, I don't care who. You can't make a joke about Catholics, Negroes, Jews, Italians, politicians, dogs or cats. In fact, politicians, dogs and cats are the most sacred institutions in America.

  Johnny Carson

  Dog, Cat, Doctors

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Book, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.228, Grove Press

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• I actually kind of like Janet Reno. She seems like a nice enough lady. But when you're basically going through the entire phone book trying to find women lawyers who don't have maids to pick the attorney general of the United States, how well can you do?

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Book, Phones

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I interviewed one of the most powerful lawyers in the world and he told me, "At the time, it was the worst thing in the world not to be able to get a job at a fancy law firm, but it's the greatest thing that ever happened in my life." It was a humble acknowledgment of how forces much larger than himself shaped his career. I really wanted to bring that point home.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Jobs, Powerful, Home

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• In my culture, shoes are more or less the first thing women look at. Women look at the build, and then they look at the shoes. If you don't have nice shoes, you don't have money. When I meet a lawyer, the first thing I look at are his shoes. If he has good shoes, he's getting my money.

  Method Man

  Nice, Shoes, Culture

  Source: www.shockya.com

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