Thibaut Courtois Quotes

Everybody hates lawyers, but they don't realize judges are just lawyers with a promotion. Think about it.

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points.

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.

Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

I was always like, "I'm going to be the drunk judge who's like, 'Objection!' 'In chambers!' "

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Most of the prosecutors I know are good people who are committed to protecting us from those who would prey on us. But these days, I sometimes run into prosecutors who just don't seem to have the character we used to have 20-30 years ago. People need to understand that prosecutors are lawyers, and like my grandmama once told me, a law degree is a license to lie.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.