Legal System Quotes

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

I think the American legal system sucks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of Whole Lotta Love.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system, which is expected to be under democratic vigilance, and others are left to the person or the group, which ideally debate moral problems in a rational, free and cooperative manner.

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have been no Disneyland; without high functioning legal systems and a well regulated business environment there would have been no copyright protection for Mickey Mouse.

As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.

They don't produce anything. All they do is guide you through the labyrinth of the legal system that they created - and they keep changing it just in case you start to catch on.

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

I want our legal system to work better. I want it to be streamlined, I want it to be clearer. I don’t think you have to — shouldn’t have to hire a lawyer to figure out how to get into this country legally.

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.