Despots Quote by Rui Barbosa

“A good lawyer has a grasp of what yesterday teaches us about today and tomorrow, and knows that the real meaning of words like…

— Sol M. Linowitz

In the heart of every lawyer, worthy of the name, there burns a deep ambition so to bear himself that the profession may be…

— John W. Davis

“Now, in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages: first, my lawyer, being practised almost from his cradle…

— Jonathan Swift

“how can a good man be a lawyer in a dictatorship?”

— Kapka Kassabova

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.”

— Hilary Mantel

“The justice system can't be totally free of lies and distortion; after all, courts are chock-full of lawyers.”

— Charles Seife

“I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.”

— John Fogarty

“No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from…

— Socrates

“When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good.”

— Steven Brill

“Lawyers get up in front of people, and they posture. They make themselves seem big and loud so people will look at them and…

— Meg Harding