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Law and lawyers

«The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.»
«There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.»
Author: Greta Garbo (Actress) | About: Law and lawyers | Keywords: governs, plan of action
«The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion»
«The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.»
«There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.»
Author: Norman Mailer | About: Law and lawyers | Keywords: cruel, or else, remaining
«The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer.»
«The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man»
Author: Learned Hand | About: Law and lawyers | Keywords: gratification, maximum
«There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.»
«The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.»
«The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...»