Law quotes

“The law is just a contract. A contract between the rich people who own everything, and the poor people who want to take it away. And the contract says, if you break the law and get away with it fine. But if you break the rules and get caught you got to play by the rules and pay the price. It's no big moral thing, you don't need ideology to knock...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeffrey Howard - Ned Rifle

“I never flew the skull and crossed bones. That's for your fictioneers. But I have sought pleasure and profit all my life at sea without regard for any man's law. That's not to say I didn't have my morals and standards. I got morals and standards. I never killed anyone who didn't have it coming. I never cheated an honest man. I never pillaged and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tommy Lee Jones - Captain Bully Hayes

“There's the law and there's what's right. I'm gonna do what's right.”
Jessica Alba - Sartana

“- Sincere: Yo, did you not see that fucking red light, man?
- Tommy 'Buns' Bundy: Man, you think I give a fuck about a montherfucking red light? Faggot cops can't touch me. I'm out here smoking weed, speeding, all that, dawg. Fuck that. That's me. Untouchable.”
Nas - Sincere
DMX - Tommy 'Buns' Bundy

“- Greta: He knocked over another ATM. This time at knife point. He needs your legal advice.
- Fletcher Reede: [picking up phone and shouting] Stop breaking the law, asshole!”
Anne Haney - Greta
Jim Carrey - Fletcher Reede

“I feel comfortable using legal jargon in everyday life.
[someone whistles at her]
I object!”
Reese Witherspoon - Elle Woods

“In the event of an emergency, they may be called upon to shoot you. Your safety is our primary concern. However, if you try anything stupid, Federal Regulations require that I kill you. So please, no hero shit!”

Eric Bogosian - Travis Dane

Mr. District Attorney, I'd like to point something out to you in the penal code. Section C, Paragraph 22: "Celebrities are above the law". This case is dismissed.
Whoopi Goldberg - Judge Cameo

“If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, it will protect all of you.”
Woody Harrelson - Larry Flynt

“- Coach: You stole my horse, maggot! Do you know what the penalty is in this state for stealing another man's horse?
- Dizzy: Death?
- Coach: This isn't Iraq, son.”
Julius Carry - Coach
DJ Qualls - Dizzy

“It ain't the law!”

George Clooney - Everett

“- Andrew Beckett: What I love the most about the law?
- Joe Miller: Yeah.
- Andrew Beckett: It's that every now and then, not often, but occasionally, you get to be a part of justice being done. That really is quite a thrill when that happens.”
Tom Hanks - Andrew Beckett
Denzel Washington - Joe Miller

“- Derek: You mess with my nut, Brennan, Randy here is gonna eat your dick.
- Randy: Like Kobayashi. [makes eating noise]
- Derek: I've seen him do it.
- Brennan Huff: You've actually seen him eating a man's penis?
- Derek: It was in international waters, so they couldn't prosecute him. But I saw it.”
Adam Scott - Derek
Rob Riggle - Randy
Will Ferrell - Brennan Huff

“I couldn't believe that virtually no member of Congress had read the Patriot Act before voting on it.”
Michael Francis Moore - Michael Moore

“I believe that ignorance of the law is no excuse, and I'm quoting a New York City judge on this one.”
Ron White - Himself

“- Hunter: Thank you, COB.
- Cob: Thank you? Fuck you! Get it straight Mr Hunter, I'm not on your side. Now you could be wrong! But wrong or right, the Captain can't just replace you at will. That was completely improper! And that's why I did what I did. By the book.
- Hunter: I thank you anyway.”

Denzel Washington - Hunter
George Dzundza - Cob

“By harboring an enemy of the Reich, you have qualified to be shot without trial. That is the law. I know because I made that law. If I choose, I can also break it.”

Laird Cregar - Herr Funk

“- Rachel: You have no right to keep us here.
- John Book: Yes I do. Your son's a material witness to a homicide.
- Rachel: You don't understand. We want nothing to do with your laws.
- John Book: Doesn't surprise me. A lot of people I meet are like that.”
Kelly McGillis - Rachel
Harrison Ford - John Book

“- Dock Newton: You ain't any less of a drunk now than you was when hooch was legal.
- Jess Newton: Well, you see, there's my point. That particular law ain't really doin' it's job, now is it?”
Vincent D'Onofrio - Dock Newton
Ethan Hawke - Jess Newton

“Today you are the law. You are the law. Not some book... not the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer.”

Paul Newman - Frank Galvin

“- Canaan: Are you the law?
- Sgt. Hastings: The closest thing they got in this shit hole, yes.”
Armand Assante - Canaan
Adam Baldwin - Sgt. Hastings

“That's who the enemy is. Policemen and file clerks. Law and order, you might say.”
Jeremy Irons - Kafka

“If you hurt my girl, you will answer directly to me, and whatever crimes I commit against you, remember, I have diplomatic immunity in 46 countries, including Puerto Rico.”

Héctor Elizondo - Joe

“- Mattie Ross: Do you need a good lawyer?
- Ned Pepper: I need a good judge!”
Kim Darby - Mattie Ross
Robert Duvall - Ned Pepper

“Malum in se. The distinction is between an act that is wrong in itself, and an act that is wrong only according to our laws and mores. It is Latin.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Mattie Ross