Law quotes

On my very first day at Harvard, a very wise professor quoted Aristotle, "the law is reason-free from passion"! Well, no offense to Aristotle, but in my three years at Harvard, I have come to find passion is the key ingredient to the study and practice of law, and of life.

Reese Witherspoon - Elle Woods

“- Mr. Darrell Sherman: Rolle was a cop. He knows the law.
- Hannah Dillon: Yeah, that's right Darrell, you keep the faith.”
Glenn Plummer - Mr. Darrell Sherman
Peggy Pope - Hannah Dillon

“- 'Bull' McCabe: There's another law stronger than the common law.
- Father Chris Doran: What's that?
- 'Bull' McCabe: The law of the land.”
Richard Harris - Bull' McCabe
Sean McGinley - Father Chris Doran

“The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Romeo

“Don't ever smoke this stuff in front of the law. You smoke this stuff in front of the law, the law gets upset.”

Valeria Golino - Maria

“Prepare to be fucked by the long dick of the law!”
Seth Rogen - Officer Michaels

“We know a couple of people that are personally responsible for the death of what, 50,000 non-military personnel? Librarians, teachers, doctors, women, children. All dead! We've wiped-out entire cultures! And for what? Not one C.I.A. agent has ever been tried, much less accused of any crimes. You guys think you're above the law. Well, you ain't...” (continue)(continue reading)

Steven Seagal - Nico Toscani

“Isn't there a law against these guys all being in the same state?”
Lee Majors - Mike Catton

“- Moogie: Hey, lemme ask you a question. In the legal sense, can fuckin' Steinbrenner move the Yankees? Does he have the fuckin' right to just move them?
- Mike McDermott: How should I know that?
- Moogie: You didn't learn that yet?
- Mike McDermott: No, we get to Steinbrenner in third year law school.
- Moogie: Oh...”
Lenny Venito - Moogie
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

- Polly Bailey: Well, maybe we should change our slogan to "If you must drink and drive, suck charcoal".
- Nick Naylor: Won't the police ask about the charcoal in your mouth?
- Bobby Jay Bliss: There's not a law against charcoal.
- Polly Bailey, Nick Naylor: Yet.
Maria Bello - Polly Bailey
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor
David Koechner - Bobby Jay Bliss

“Don't fight any cops, Muggs. I think they got the law on their side.”

Huntz Hall - Limpy

“- Happy Jack Mulraney: I'm paid to uphold the law.
- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: What in Heaven's name are you talking about?”
John C. Reilly - Happy Jack Mulraney
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting

“The law is the law. And heck if I'm gonna break it. You can forgive someone. Well, that's the tough part. What can we forgive? Tough part of the job. Tough part of walking down the street.”
John C. Reilly - Officer Jim Kurring

“What is the law? It's a gun pointed at somebody's head. All depends upon which end of the gun you stand, whether the law is just or not.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“There's no such thing as law and order in this town. Decent citizens live in fear of their lives.”

Dick Foran - Wayne Carter

Pay attention, because this is the best goddamn advice you're ever gonna get. Ever hear of something called double jeopardy? Fifth Amendment to the constitution? Huh? No? Well, double jeopardy provides that "no person may be tried for the same crime twice". You got that? Keep stirrin'. The state says you already killed your husband. They can't... (continue)(continue reading)
Roma Maffia - Margaret

“The law has the right to forbid only those things that are harmful to society. I must go. I must go, not because I'm harmful to society - which is you - but I am harmful to tyranny.”

Charles Laughton - Albert Lory

“Without the law, it's all darkness.”
Sam Waterston - Ben

“- Kate Veatch: I'm not a banker, I'm a lawyer.
- Peter La Fleur: Really? What kind of law are you involved in, pretty eyes?
- Kate Veatch: Sexual harassment, mostly.”
Christine Taylor - Kate Veatch
Vince Vaughn - Peter La Fleur

“- Judge Dredd: You received the sentence the law required.
- Fergie: Five years? Just for saving my own ass? That was a mistake!
- Judge Dredd: The law doesn't make mistakes.”
Sylvester Stallone - Judge Dredd
Rob Schneider - Fergie

“We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.”
Tim Blake Nelson - Danny Dalton

“We Newtons ain't cut out for the wrong side of the law.”
Matthew McConaughey - Willis Newton

“I, for one, have never advocated passive anything. We must never sumbit to such laws. And I think our resistance must be active and provocative!”
Ben Kingsley - Mahatma Gandhi

“- Abbott: The arm of the English law needed help in taking our friend to the station - very, very reluctantly. I've given him in charge.
- Nurse Agnes: For disorderly conduct in a sacred edifice.”
Peter Lorre - Abbott
Cicely Oates - Nurse Agnes

“- Nick: They're tough in Louisiana, Libby. You shoot me, they'll give you the gas chamber.
- Libby: No they won't. It's called double jeopardy. I learned a few things in prison, Nick. I could shoot you in the middle of Mardi Gras and they can't touch me.
- Travis: As an ex-law professor, I can assure you she is right.”
Bruce Greenwood - Nick
Ashley Judd - Libby
Tommy Lee Jones - Travis