20th-century Lawyer Quotes

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

Jeffrey Steingarten

The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody's life, if you have enough metadata you don't really need content…. [It's] sort of embarrassing how predictable we are as human beings.

That indefatigable and unsavoury engine of pollution, the dog.

I have no idea what a poor Rothschild would look like. I suppose he would vanish in anonymity.

Guy de Rothschild

What is the difference between a Lord Chancellor and a Secretary of State, the man on Clapham Omnibus could, with reason, ask. After all, that engagingly friendly and cheerful chappie, Lord Falconer, seems to be quite happy playing both roles.

Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf

Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech, and you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.

Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually challenging as a fistfight. Ultimately, trading is an exercise in self-mastery and endurance.

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.

Gordon G. Chang

I won't be running for office again. But I'll continue to advocate, write and teach.

It is not fair to Tony or to the Government that the entire focus of political debate at the moment is about me. I know I'm in a very special position, I'm the wife of the Prime Minister, I have an interesting job and a wonderful family, but I also know I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air. Some of you must experience that.

America. America. Land of my birth and erstwhile distiess. Hypocrite immemorial. My heart left long ago. At long last, I have followed it. Trying my very best, how could I, in good conscience, remain for a countiy that has never ever, at home or abroad, been for me or for mine?

Randall Robinson

Whereas in England all is permitted that is not expressly prohibited, it has been said that in Germany all is prohibited unless expressly permitted and in France all is permitted that is expressly prohibited. In the European Common Market (as it then was) no-one knows what is permitted and it all costs more.

I think the top leadership challenge issue in our world today is how to deal with the continuing, growing population in the world and all the resource demands it places on the world and burgeoning populations in Africa and Asia that lack the resources to have a healthy, happy life.

Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates.

Daniel R. White

I fear that, eventually, we are all going to become collateral damage in the war on drugs, or terrorism, or whatever war is in vogue at the moment.

James C. Nelson

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

Albert Theodore Powers

I found it exhilarating to make the disparate and miscellaneous details presented in the investigation report something coherent, to organize them in accordance with the requirements of law as a musician organizes notes in accordance with the requirements of sonata form. Trying the case, I'd given shape to the chaos of reality, turned it into drama, with a plot, characters, dialogue, a climax, and a denouement, a cunning representation in the courtroom of the transaction outside the courtroom which constituted the subject matter of the case.

This country is going so far to the right you won't recognize it.

John N. Mitchell

In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.

Jennifer Granholm

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.

Otto Kerner Jr.

He [Saddam Hussein] will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.