c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society.
— David Harsanyi
Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.
— Billy Graham
Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.
— Marianne Williamson
When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.
— Ben Shapiro
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
— Ice Cube
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
— Cynthia Ozick
Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
— Oscar Wilde
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.
— Noam Chomsky
Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.
— Rush Limbaugh
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?
— Tom Stoppard
That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.
— Tom Stoppard
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
— Samuel Johnson
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
— Clint Eastwood
I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.
— Joel Osteen
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
— Alice Walker
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
— Yoko Ono
Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.
— Deepak Chopra
It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
— John Lydon
You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
— Bruce Springsteen
The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.
— Virginia Postrel
If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
— Simon Mainwaring
There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
— Doris Lessing
We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
— David Suzuki
I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
— Charles B. Rangel
I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.
— Helen Mirren
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.
— Michael Bloomberg
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
— Colin Powell
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
— Desmond Tutu
I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
— Mike Tyson
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
— Jonathan Sacks
If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
— Jonathan Sacks
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
— Jonathan Sacks
Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.
— Graydon Carter
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
— Boris Johnson
To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.
— Thomas Perez
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
— David Ogilvy
The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
— Iain Duncan Smith
If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
— Iain Duncan Smith
We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
— Iain Duncan Smith
Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
— Serj Tankian
I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
— Serj Tankian
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.
— Richard Lamm
Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
— Tariq Ramadan
The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.
— Tariq Ramadan
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.
— Kevin Whately
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.
— Mary Ellen Mark
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
— Terry Eagleton
Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?
— Tony Judt
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
— Alan King
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.
— Alex Steffen
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
— Clarence Thomas
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
— John Ralston Saul
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
— Ferdinand Marcos
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
— Jack Kingston
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
— Abraham Verghese
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
— David Icke
In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
— Al Roker
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
— Charles Kuralt
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
— Walter Lippmann
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
— Walter Lippmann
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
— George Soros
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
— Stephen Harper
I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly to society. I think a lot of that is unintentional; I don't think that many managers are deliberately trying to be unethical or are not trying to be sensitive to social needs.
— Michael Porter
Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.
— Michael Porter
You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.
— Kathleen Turner
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
— Herbert Read
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
— Charles de Secondat
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
— Kevin Kelly
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
— Mikhail Bakunin
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
— Judith Martin
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
— Robert Orben
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
— John W. Gardner
In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.
— John Sculley
Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.
— Alison Goldfrapp
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
— Benjamin Tucker
For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
— Judy Collins
The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.
— Steven Weber
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
— Ray Charles
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
— George Ayittey
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
— Ibrahim Babangida
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
— Bong Joon-ho
Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence.
— Philip Yancey
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
— Max Cannon
Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.
— Ivan Krastev
Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking. 
— Ludwig von Mises
I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.
— John Cameron
I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.
— Rupert Sheldrake
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
— Bill Vaughan
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
— Ernest Mandel
Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.
— Richard Louv
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
— P. Chidambaram
If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.
— Katherine Paterson
We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
— Gary Neville
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
— John Naisbitt
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
— Abbie Hoffman
I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.
— Cindy Gallop
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.
— Aravind Adiga
If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.
— Aravind Adiga
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
— Moshe Katsav
I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
— Emily Giffin
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
— Georges Bernanos
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.
— Kenzaburo Oe
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
— David Horowitz
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
— Gregory Corso
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
— Robert Bork
In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
— Frank Dane
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
— Hernan Cortes
My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.
— Gong Li
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
— Boyd Rice
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
— Preston Manning
The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
— Abbe Pierre
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
— Nursultan Nazarbayev
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
— Nursultan Nazarbayev
I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.
— John Connolly
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
— Anthony Kennedy
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
— Alan Paton
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
— Ivan Illich
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
— Irv Kupcinet
It is good for society to have this introspection.
— Jacques Verges
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
— Jimmy Reid
Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.
— Joe Moore
In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does it matter if organisations independent enough and rich enough to employ journalists to do their job disappear? Yes, that matters hugely; it affects the whole of life and society.
— Andrew Marr
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
— A. Whitney Brown
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
— Robert Adams
People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.
— Michael Harrington
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
— Baldwin Spencer
Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
— Daniel Pennac
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
— Randolph Bourne
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
— Hugh Kingsmill
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
— Peter Medawar
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
— Potter Stewart
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
— Voltaire
It is legal because I wish it.
— Louis XIV
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
— Will Rogers
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
— Saint Augustine
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.
— Samuel Adams
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
— Ted Cruz
Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.
— Michael Jordan
Justice delayed is justice denied.
— William E. Gladstone
Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.
— Evander Holyfield
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
— Steven Wright
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
— George Washington
Fairness is what justice really is.
— Potter Stewart
As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
— Bob Filner
There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.
— Linda Ronstadt
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
— Robert E. Lee
More law, less justice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
— Bryant H. McGill
The trouble with law is lawyers.
— Clarence Darrow
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
— Will Rogers
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
— Otto von Bismarck
If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
— Bruce Willis
Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
— Ziggy Marley
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
— Plato
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
— Edmund Burke
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
— Rand Paul
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
— George Bernard Shaw
Common sense often makes good law.
— William O. Douglas
Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
— Joseph Rotblat
No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.
— Susan B. Anthony
I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.
— Edward Snowden
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
— Oliver North
That which is not just is not law.
— William Lloyd Garrison
We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
— Ban Ki-moon
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
— Andrew Jackson
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
— Dorothy Day
Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.
— Shirley Chisholm
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
— Calvin Coolidge
It is right to give every man his due.
— Plato
There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.
— Bill O'Reilly
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
— Christopher Darden
The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.
— Janet Reno
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
— Bernie Sanders
I did a little bit of acting - some guest spots here and there. I got a job working as a therapist doing individual and group crisis intervention and family therapy. I did that for two years. I left to do 'Boston Legal.' So my psychology career has been interwoven into my acting career, and it's my safety net and fallback.
— Meredith Eaton
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
— Carol Burnett
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
— Clarence Darrow
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
— Edmund Burke
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
— Joseph Conrad
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
— Lenny Bruce
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. 
— Michel de Montaigne
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
— Louis XIV
Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.
— Charles W. Pickering
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
— Bob Ney
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
— George Soros
Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.
— Sonia Sotomayor
There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
— Karl Lagerfeld
You cannot grant amnesty. If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again believe in legal immigration. They will never again support it, and that's wrong for our country, bad for our future.
— Marco Rubio
We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away... people know full well how we live in Europe.
— Angela Merkel
It would be a sign of society changing if we did finally legalize prostitution. Once it's legal, it doesn't mean your daughter's going to run out and be a ho. The more we sort of bring these things into the light, you bring these hidden vices into the light, the less power they have over our society. You make it legal, it tends to go away.
— Thomas Jane
No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.
— Sydney Pollack
Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.
— Kevin Mitnick
However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.
— Hassan Nasrallah
There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
— Daniel Ek
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
— Abraham Lincoln
Public confidence in, and support for, the euro - and, indeed, the European Union - will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver on growth and jobs rather than on institutional wrangling and complex legal or technical negotiations.
— Enda Kenny
Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.
— Mike Pompeo
Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens' political and civil rights.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.
— Tom Hanks
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.
— Teju Cole
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
— Lawrence Lessig
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
— James Otis
There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
— Daniel Ek
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
— Elena Kagan
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
— Andrew Johnson
Unlike national legal systems, there are precious few avenues to address judicial activism at the WTO. You pretty much have to gain consensus to change the agreements, or simply withdraw from the system. The first is nearly impossible, and the second would be - in the view of many - cataclysmic.
— Robert Lighthizer
Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.
— Reid Hoffman
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
— Anita Hill
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.
— Lysander Spooner
Yes, the state must intervene to prevent the exploitation of poor Indian women who are enticed or coerced into surrogacy, as well as to protect the rights of surrogate children. However, it should also be empathetic to individuals with alternative lifestyles who are well within their legal and human rights to demand access to surrogacy services.
— Kapil Sibal
We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.
— Marco Rubio
I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
— Gary Johnson
The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.
— Eric Schneiderman
Places where prostitution is legal, you find much better health care, fewer cases of disease and illegal abortions. There's really nothing to be gained by keeping prostitution illegal.
— Thomas Jane
I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.
— Sally Yates
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
— Sonny Bono
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
— George Herbert
Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.
— Loretta Napoleoni
Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.
— George Segal
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.
— Stacy Schiff
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
— Charles Lamb
I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
— Daniel Goleman
While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.
— Jeff Duncan
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
— Henry Miller
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
— Warren E. Burger
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.
— Romeo LeBlanc
Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
— Samuel Dash
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
— Neil Gaiman
I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.
— Harvey Weinstein
A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.
— Eden Robinson
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
— Gilbert Parker
I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.
— Samuel Alito
Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent resident, not by recent immigrants or by refugees. So tamping down immigration won't fix the real issue, which is 'homegrown' terrorism.
— Peter L. Bergen
Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.
— Robert Kennedy
As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize.
— Jose Andres
We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.
— John Madden
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
— Thucydides
I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view.
— Bhagat Singh
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
— Ambrose Bierce
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
— Charles Morgan
The good lawyer is the great salesman.
— Janet Reno
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
— Aaron Allston
Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
— Tammy Bruce
As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
— Bill Williams
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
— Virgil Goode
We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.
— Julian Assange
You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
— Theresa May
A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.
— Anna Eshoo
Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children.
— Mark Helprin
You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.
— Matt Taibbi
Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
— Tori Amos
I'm for the DREAM Act. It makes so much sense. Following the implementation of the DREAM Act, we'll have a case study we can point to where we can say that we provided a path to citizenship or legal involvement in the community for these young immigrants, and the sky didn't fall.
— Beto O'Rourke
Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?
— Robert Kiyosaki
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
— Simon Schama