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The trouble with law is lawyers

Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer


 

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Every law is an evil,
for every law is an infraction of liberty.

-Bentham Jeremy


 

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Prisons are built with stones of Law,
brothels with bricks of Religion.

-Blake,William


 

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The trouble with law is lawyers

Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer


 

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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

– Oscar Wilde

 


 

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

– Oscar Wilde

 


 

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

– Oscar Wilde


 

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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) British novelist


 

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The trouble with law is lawyers.
– Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer


 

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The law is reason, free from passion.
– Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.


 

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
– Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British political writer.


 

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

– Sophocles

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

– Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British political writer.

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

– Robert Frost

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Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

– Hart Pomerantz

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

– Oscar Wilde

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The trouble with law is lawyers

Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer

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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

– Voltaire

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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

– Mark Twain

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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

– Oscar Wilde

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

– Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

– Oscar Wilde

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He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.

– Proverb

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

– Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

– Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)

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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

– Immanuel Kant

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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

– Oscar Wilde

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

– Mark Twain

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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

– Will Rogers

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Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

-Blake,William

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The law is reason, free from passion.

– Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

– Khalil Gibran

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Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

-Bentham Jeremy

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