Law quotes

“- Alex: I won't say a single solitary slovo unless I have my lawyer here. I know the law, you bastards.
- Police Inspector: We'll have to show our little friend Alex here that we know the law too, but that knowing the law isn't everything.”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
Lindsay Campbell - Police Inspector

The law has a name for what you people are planning. It's called "private justice". And private justice is about a step and a half away from lynch mobs and hang ropes. Now I may be no J. Edgar Hoover, but I am the law in Tarker's Mills. I want all you people to go home.

Terry O'Quinn - Sheriff Joe Haller

“Alright, Joseph, you conduct the law your way on random sentimentality and you will have violence and disorder.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“- Felix Leiter: There's only one law down there. Sanchez's Law! Plomo o Plata.
- James Bond: Lead or silver.”
David Hedison - Felix Leiter
Timothy Dalton - James Bond

“- Seth Davis: FCC regulations state that maximum rip allowed is five percent allowed and we're making four times that.
- Chris Varick: You just passed your Series Seven and now you're an inspector? Aren't you happy with the way things are going?
- Seth Davis: Yeah I am, I'm just curious, you're not curious?
- Chris Varick: Not at all, I like...” (continue)(continue reading)
Giovanni Ribisi - Seth Davis
Vin Diesel - Chris Varick

“- Stephen Simmons: They found out I spent time in that mental hospital.
- Lois Simmons: Well, did you tell them you went into that hospital voluntary for nightmares?
- Stephen Simmons: Nothing personal, they said. Law says you can't work for the city or state within the vicinity of children if you've spent time in a mental hospital or corrective...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Costner - Stephen Simmons
Mare Winningham - Lois Simmons

“- Elise Elliot Atchison: Should I have done your homework, Bill! I did. By the way, here's a copy of her birth certificate.
- Bill Atchison: I didn't know... God! What are you going to do?
- Elise Elliot Atchison: What am I gonna do? Well, for now I'm just going to say the f word... Felony.”

Goldie Hawn - Elise Elliot Atchison
Victor Garber - Bill Atchison

“- Brian Hoyle: Let the law take these guys down. You know, sometimes the law works.
- Paul Kersey: And sometimes it doesn't! These people, they steal, they murder, they destroy people's lives and they get away with it! They have alibis, money, lawyers, power. They have everything.”
Saul Rubinek - Brian Hoyle
Charles Bronson - Paul Kersey

“- John Gotti: Let me go through this RICO thing again. It says if anyone anywhere is caught doin' anything wrong, then everyone is guilty up and down the line. Wait a minute. This is a law?
- Bruce Cutler: It is the government's license to throw out the Constitution.”
Armand Assante - John Gotti
Al Waxman - Bruce Cutler

“Why isn't there a law in this state to protect women from vultures like you?”

Fred MacMurray - Bill Cardew

“My father's law will prevail. For now, I reserve judgement. We'll see who you really are.”

Matthew Broderick - Simba

“- Bill McCabe: Look Dennis, the difference between dad and me is that I just fuck with the law; he fucked with the government.
- Dennis McCabe: The law and the government are the same thing.
- Bill McCabe: No, it isn't. Government doesn't have to obey the law.”
Robert John Burke - Bill McCabe
Bill Sage - Dennis McCabe

“Some of you may have had easy lives up until now. Some of you may not. Life this semester won't be easy for any of you. Your grades in your first year of law school can determine your entire future in the law.”
James Earl Jones - Professor Banks

“The law of the street was take or be taken.”
Christian Slater - Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano

“- Violet Newstead: He wants to prosecute.
- Doralee Rhodes: Well why wouldn't he? He's got you for poisoning him, and me for roping him, and you for acting like he was first prize at a turkey shoot!”
Lily Tomlin - Violet Newstead
Dolly Parton - Doralee Rhodes

“- Hank: Nobody gets hurt by us keeping it. I mean, that's what, that's what makes it a crime, doesn't it? Somebody getting hurt?
- Sarah: What makes it a crime is it's against the law. It doesn't matter if somebody gets hurt or they don't. If you get caught then you go to jail.
- Hank: Yeah, but nobody's gonna get caught. The money is the only...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bill Paxton - Hank
Bridget Fonda - Sarah

“Another mistake is for any man to look upon the law as just a set of principles. And just so much language printed on fine, heavy paper. Something he recites and then leans back and takes it for granted that justice is automatically being done.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“Let me give you a little advice, kid. Just throw those law books away, huh? It's better to turn your eyes and let them fight their damn dogs. Damn sight better than them killin' each other.”

Lee Marvin - Millen

“Even businessmen, who rob and cheat and steal from people everyday, even they have to pay taxes.”
Jonathan Winters - Lennie Pike

“You may think you're getting off free, but there's other justice in this world besides the law!”

Jocelyn Brando - Mrs. Ritter

“Del Rio was a town in trouble, a town with a gun at its back; plagued by crime that just wouldn't stop, and cursed with a Sheriff that wore black. So you would think they would be suspicious, but certain folks rarely are. They're willing to trust their law to just about any man who wears a star.”
Merle Haggard - Balladeer

“I know the law. The law doesn't know the streets.”
Treat Williams - Detective Daniel Ciello

“Show me the law on bringing a head out of the country, ah? It ain't a fruit, it ain't a vegetable, it ain't even a plant, goddamm it!”
Anthony Mangano - Rico

“Justice and law, Mr. Du Toit, are often just... well they're, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins. And here in South Africa, well, they're simply not on speaking terms at all.”
Marlon Brando - McKenzie