Civil Cases Quotes

#1. In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

James Madison

#2. In all those cases, in accordance with the theme of this book, increases in economic freedom have gone hand in hand with increases in political and civil freedom and have led to increased prosperity; competitive capitalism and freedom have been inseparable.

Milton Friedman

#3. I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

Norman Granz

#4. If you follow Donald Trump's logic, say that he couldn't decide any civil rights cases because he would be biased.I mean, we do want a diverse and inclusive judiciary - one that looks like the people that they serve. And we do recognize the value of having diverse backgrounds represented.

Deborah Rhode

#5. I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything.

Lupe Fiasco

#6. Magic is 10% secrets and 90% presentation. Mentalism is 5% secrets and 95% presentation.

Harish Kumar

#7. Starbucks and their ilk are for meeting with people you don't care to meet with and finishing term papers.

Lauren Leto

#8. In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal or even superior, to that of the other sex.

Catharine Beecher

#9. To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down the pursuit of pleasant sensations, not accelerate it.

Yuval Noah Harari

#10. The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#11. Our investigations were very fruitful. They led to the discovery of a new cell part, the lysosome, which received its name in 1955, and later of yet another organelle, the peroxisome.

Christian De Duve

#12. Some folks in the office said I should explain in my complaint that I was a civil rights attorney working on police misconduct cases. It seemed to me that no one should need those kinds of credentials to complain about misconduct by police officers.

Bryan Stevenson

#13. The vast majority of criminal cases are settled by plea bargaining. Only the rare civil case goes to trial, not least because most judges now see "case management" rather than presiding over trials as their primary responsibility. Late

Mark Tushnet

#14. The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.

Oprah Winfrey

#15. So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

Susan Estrich

#16. Their voices were just murmurs, the distant music that a conversation makes when it's too dim for words.

Patrick Rothfuss

#17. GRC is about collaboration and harmony.

Pearl Zhu

#18. Beyond the haze, the globe was decorated with a mosaic of sapphire, emerald and amber. The planet glittered like a jewel in the moonlight.

L.T. Gibbons

#19. I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

Fede Alvarez

#20. It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

Ovid

#21. No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.

William Blackstone

#22. I was a chief justice. And before that, I was a district court judge, handled major felonies, including capital murder cases; and I handled major civil litigation.

Louie Gohmert

#23. I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#24. The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

Ernest Bevin

#25. Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Charles De Secondat

#26. Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were no regularized processes in either Northern or Southern Army for notifying next of kin.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#27. In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

P. J. O'Rourke

#28. Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.

Robert H. Jackson