Quotes About Legal Profession

#1. I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

Constance Baker Motley

#2. Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.

Ian McEwan

#3. Every profession has its pitfalls. Doctors, for example, are always being asked for free medical advice, lawyers are asked for legal information, morticians are told how interesting a profession that must be and then people change the subject fast.

Neil Gaiman

#4. Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.

V. R. Krishna Iyer

#5. In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

Constance Baker Motley

#6. Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to be loved only according to his value.

Max Scheler

#7. The debate is whether the war is legal. It has brought pain, misery and desperation to hundreds of thousands of people. Does that sound legal to you? To me it sounds like the dictionary definition of the legal profession.

Frankie Boyle

#8. I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

James E. Rogers

#9. The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things.

Sarah M. Eden

#10. But I'm still not 100% convinced that Roger Clemens took steroids. I'm not.

Al Leiter

#11. we others who thirst for reason want to look our experiences as straight in the eye as if they represented a scientific experiment

Walter Kaufmann

#12. I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

Kim Basinger

#13. When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

Leon Jaworski

#14. The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

Elaine Pagels

#15. My mom's a mad scientist. It's a lot like being a regular scientist, except without worrying about legal or moral limitations, and it's a commom profession among the scientifically inclined supervillain.

Chelsea M. Campbell

#16. You know how Burger King often employs mentally handicapped people to wipe down tables at their restaurants? What those people are to Burger King, paralegals are to lawyers. It's the lowest job you can possibly get and still technically be considered in the legal profession

Michael Ian Black

#17. My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

John Grisham

#18. Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

Michael Crichton

#19. Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.

Gangaji

#20. Unless you deplete lots of muscle glycogen every day, there is no physiological reason for you to consume high levels of carbohydrates. In fact, carbohydrates are not required in the human diet for survival the way fat and protein are.

Mark Sisson

#21. The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

Kevin Spacey