#law

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ↗

— Anatole France

#bread #bridges #equality #forbids #law

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#against #believe #defendant #force #him

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. ↗

— Barney Frank

#combat #community #community action #early #early sixties

In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres. ↗

— Hans Frank

#became #cooperate #development #economic #frame

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#cats #countryman #fish #lawyers #like

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#film #good #good film #i #independent

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes. ↗

— Marilyn French

#eyes #laws #life #may #men

When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn't just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#bet #casino #culture #decided #everyone

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ↗

— Max Stirner

#crime #individual #law #own #state

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ↗

— Robert Frost

#chosen #consists #decide #jury #lawyer