Law quotes

“I know it's against the law. I ask you, what has the law ever done for this place?”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch

“Law is a lot more than words you put in a book, or judges or lawyers or sheriffs you hire to carry it out. It's everything people ever have found out about justice and what's right and wrong. It's the very conscience of humanity.”

Henry Fonda - Gil Carter

“A man just naturally can't take the law into his own hands and hang people without hurting everybody in the world, 'cause then he's just not breaking one law but all laws.”

Henry Fonda - Gil Carter

“- Commissare Woman: You and your cockroach-eating friend over there... have 48 hours to get out! Good evening, Comrade Count.
- Dracula: Wait one minute! This is my home. My people cleared the land. We tortured innocent peasants for it. We even murdered for it. By Romanian law, that makes it ours.”
Lidia Kristen - Commissare Woman
George Hamilton - Dracula

“The rich getting richer, that's the law of the land.”
Ed Harris - Dave Moss

“The function of a civil resistance is to provoke response and we will continue to provoke until they respond or change the law. They are not in control; we are.”
Ben Kingsley - Mahatma Gandhi

“If you win this case, justice will prevail. And if you lose, justice will also prevail. Now, that is a strange case.”

Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks

“- Charlie: So, Whitey, what happened to your family?
- Whitey: I killed them. I hacked them up with a hammer while they were asleep. Ma, Pa, Bro, Sis. She was awake, my sis. I was just released from prison on my 21st birthday. I wasn't ready to leave but they said I had to. Fucked up law, huh?”

Jim Carrey - Charlie
Michael Bowman - Whitey

You now have a Swiss bank account if anybody asks. Crédit Nationale Du Génève code name "Paddy". Lavish awkward gesture. All of fifteen Swiss Francs in it, but if you ever want to impress anybody, they can find out you have a Swiss account. But, Swiss law prohibits the bank from revealing the balance. Thus are all men made equal.
Steve Martin - Jimmy Dell

“- Josh: I think I'd really like to check out Environmental Law.
- Mel Horowitz: Why? You want to have a miserable, frustrating life?”
Paul Rudd - Josh
Dan Hedaya - Mel Horowitz

“- Kinski: If we eat him, we break the law!
- Peloquin: Oh, fuck the law! I want meat!”
Nicholas Vince - Kinski
Oliver Parker - Peloquin

“You can't serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You gotta kill him or let him be.”
John Wayne - Rooster Cogburn

“We're not runnin' from the law. We're runnin' to the law.”
James Garner - Zack

“- Eli Turnbull, INS Agent: If they are in fact aliens from another planet, sir, doesn't that make them Air Force jurisdiction?
- Gorman Seedling, INS Deputy Commissioner: If they're just visiting, sure. But the minute they try to work here, they're mine.”
David Spade - Eli Turnbull, INS Agent
Michael McKean - Gorman Seedling, INS Deputy Commissioner

“If I was accused of murder I would have more legal rights than I know what to do with. But when the IRS audits you, they make you think you don't have any rights at all. They make their own laws. And they administer them, and they enforce them, and they prosecute them, and they judge them.”
Edward Herrmann - Harry Johnson

“- Idgie Threadgoode: I can't believe he swore on the Bible!
- Ruth Jamison: Well, if that judge had looked any closer, he'd have seen that it was a copy of Moby Dick.”
Mary Stuart Masterson - Idgie Threadgoode
Mary-Louise Parker - Ruth Jamison

“The appearance of law must be upheld, especially while it's being broken.”
Jim Broadbent - William 'Boss' Tweed

“- Chicago: Is this considered interfering with a police investigation?
- Jericho: Hey... we're private citizens having a conversation with another citizen. I mean, I don't think they found a way to outlaw that... at least not yet.”
Kevin Pollak - Chicago
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Jericho

“- Jerome Facher: What's your take?
- Jan Schlichtmann: They'll see the truth.
- Jerome Facher: The truth? I thought we were talking about a court of law. Come on, you've been around long enough to know that a courtroom isn't a place to look for the truth.”

Robert Duvall - Jerome Facher
John Travolta - Jan Schlichtmann

“How can a guy be breaking the law when he's trying to save the resources of this country?”

Spencer Tracy - Square John Sand

“You live your life, believing in things like justice and the law. Then someone grabs you off the street in broad daylight. Walks right past the police and tells you that he'll reach out from beyond the grave and kill your son. You don't think about right or wrong, you only think about survival. You do what you have to do.”
Joanne Whalley - Valerie Alston

“Norma, those men came here without any warrants at all. I tried to take them off our land. One of them shot me. What do you want me to do?”

Art Carney - Irv Manders

“Law one: you will obey orders without question. Law two: punishment shall be swift. Law three: mercy is for the weak. Four: terror will defeat reason. Five: your allegiance is to the clan. Six: justice can be dictated. Seven: any clansman may challenge for leadership of the clan. Law eight: there is only one penalty. Death.”
Will Patton - General Bethlehem

“- Constable Alvin Adams: You can't let people get away with that - makin' up their own laws.
- Sergeant Edgar Millen: The only thing to remember is Millen's Law. You want to stay a Mountie, then all you have to do is keep headquarters happy, huh? 'Cause the only time they're unhappy is when there's an unaccounted for killing. So if you account...” (continue)(continue reading)
Andrew Stevens - Alvin
Lee Marvin - Millen

“- Cop: Why were you so convinced we wouldn't believe you?
- Vanessa Lutz: 'Cause I've been in the system, and once you've been in it once, ain't no one never gonna believe you again.”
Craig Barnett - Cop