Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The best thing that happened from that situation when I failed was the fact that I failed and I failed because I… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people.… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Now I am practicing as well as a criminal defense lawyer in handling appeals. The court of appeals appointed me to handle… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... it would… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated… — Spencer Antle Copy Share Image
The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I'd… — Kimberly Bryant Copy Share Image
My children have helped give me purpose and made me a better lawyer. They have shown me the power of choosing life.… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
With Republicans in control of the Senate for the first time since Barack Obama took office, the president may find it harder… — Terry Eastland Copy Share Image
If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in… — Arthur Baer Copy Share Image
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Everybody comes to the planet with certain gifts. It may be writing, it may be acting, it may be singing, it may… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Under the ethics rules that apply to lawyers, an attorney has a duty to represent her clients zealously, which includes refraining from… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
Most of the prosecutors I know are good people who are committed to protecting us from those who would prey on us.… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama's executive amnesty has been frozen via a stay by a judge on the appellate court. You remember, this is the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan, U.S. troops are now holding an American man who has been fighting alongside the Taliban. His mother says he was… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
J. Budziszewski is perhaps the clearest and most eloquent natural lawyer writing today. When reading his works I often find myself amazed… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the… — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably… — Dave Parker Copy Share Image
In my experience, the public will forgive mistakes, provided they are acknowledged promptly and a remedial course of action is articulated. Lawyers… — Steven Fink Copy Share Image
I think, as poets, we are in the odd position of constantly defending our art form. Which is funny and also sort… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
![“I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only…” quote by Vincent Bugliosi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/314/vincent-bugliosi-8709_book_i-can-assure-the-conspiracy-theorists-wh_47158.jpg)
![“[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns for all the Harvard profs because they were buffaloed by that kind of reasoning. Professors in the economics department, even they knew nothing about it.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2c6/paul-laffoley-7077_department_my-father-was-also-a-lawyer-in-his-bank_1083145.jpg)
![“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.” quote by Ouida](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3f4/ouida-3651_avarice_on-christianity-its-lip-service-and-its_1641749.jpg)
![“[Barack] Obama's executive amnesty has been frozen via a stay by a judge on the appellate court. You remember, this is the judge that discovered the Defense Department lawyers were lying to him in open court, and instead of actually sanctioning them, he demanded that they go to a new ethics course…” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ddf/rush-limbaugh-28_amnesty_barack-obama-s-executive-amnesty-has-bee_2211239.jpg)
![“Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the damned lawyers help them do it. They're all sticking two fingers up at them who pay their taxes. And I'll tell you sommat for free, Sir George, them who pays the taxes are…” quote by Andrew Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b04/andrew-barrett-26642_aids_far-as-i-know-legal-aid-was-invented-to_1653369.jpg)
