Law quotes

“- Magneto: Does it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they will pass that foolish law or one just like it, and come for you? And your children?
- Professor Charles Xavier: It does, indeed.
- Magneto: What do you do, when you wake up to that?
- Professor Charles Xavier: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto
Sir Patrick Stewart - Professor Charles Xavier

In the third millennium, the world changed. Climate, nations, all were in upheaval. The Earth transformed into a poisonous, scorched desert, known as "The Cursed Earth". Millions of people crowded into a few Megacities, where roving bands of street savages created violence the justice system could not control. Law, as we know it, collapsed.
James Earl Jones - Narrator

“- Woody Stevens: That's not a discussion.
- Dudley Frank: Yeah, that's a lawsuit.”
John Travolta - Woody Stevens
William H. Macy - Dudley Frank

“What must a king do to save his world when the very laws he has sworn to protect force him to do nothing?”

Gerard Butler - King Leonidas

“We have developed a legal concept in this country. It's called presumption of innocence.”
Robert Redford - Tom Logan

“In America, we have laws. Laws against killing, laws against stealing. And it is just accepted that as a member of American society, you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society which has it's own laws. Football is a way of life.”
James Van Der Beek - Mox

“With a law degree you're taking on insurance. After that you can do anything you want.”

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone

“There must be law and order. German law. German order.”
Ludwig Stössel - Herman Bauer - Burgomaster

“This film is only for Madagascar and Iran, neither of which follow American copyright law.”
Steve Martin - Bowfinger

- Superman: You've broken all the laws of man, Luthor. It looks as though you've broken all the laws of nature, too. I can only assume you must have hidden a device of some kind on one of the missiles I hurled into the sun.
- Lex Luthor: You know, "Mr. Muscle", I'm really gonna miss these little chats we had together. You're the only one that... (continue)(continue reading)
Christopher Reeve - Superman
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“- Heck: So, what about you? Are you married? Ever been married, ever going to get married?
- Luce: No. No. Maybe now that the law's changed.
- Heck: How do you mean?
- Luce: Well, I'm gay.”
Matthew Goode - Heck
Lena Headey - Luce

“- Japanese Pedestrian: Run! It's Godzilla!
- Japanese Pedestrian: It looks like Godzilla, but due to international copyright laws, it's not.
- Japanese Pedestrian: Still! We should run like it is Godzilla!
- Japanese Pedestrian: Though it isn't.”
Brian Tee - Japanese Pedestrian
Masi Oka - Japanese Pedestrian

“- Warren Stacy: Go ahead, arrest me. Take me in. You can't punish me. I'm sick. You can't punish me for being sick! All you can do is lock me up. But not forever. One day I'll get out. One day I'll get out. That's the law! That's the law! That's the law! And I'll be back! I'll be back! And you'll hear from me! You and the whole fucking world!
-...” (continue)(continue reading)

Gene Davis - Warren Stacy
Charles Bronson - Leo Kessler

“- Cole Sear: They used to hang people here.
- Stanley Cunningham: No, that... mm-mm, that's not correct. Where'd you hear that?
- Cole Sear: They'd pull the people in, crying and kissing their families 'bye. People watching would spit at them.
- Stanley Cunningham: Uh, Cole, this building was a legal courthouse. Laws were passed here. Some of...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bruce Willis - Stanley Cunningham
Haley Joel Osment - Cole Sear

“- Leopold: Are you suggesting madam that there exists a law compelling a gentleman to lay hold of canine bowel movements?
- Policewoman: I'm suggesting that you pick the poop up.”
Hugh Jackman - Leopold
Viola Davis - Policewoman

“- R.J. Norringer: You're involved in something you know nothing about.
- Frank Daly: Doesn't matter what it is... if you've broken the law you've got to pay for it.”
Guy Boyd - R.J. Norringer
Brian Dennehy - Frank Daly

“I'm the law, I ain't gotta do nothing.”

Pruitt Taylor Vince - Ballard

“- Yentl: I'd like this one, please.
- Bookseller: Sacred books are for men.
- Yentl: Why?
- Bookseller: It's the law.
- Yentl: Where's it written?
- Bookseller: It doesn't matter where it's written, it's the law.
- Yentl: Well if it's the law it must be written somewhere, perhaps in here. I'll take it.”

Barbra Streisand - Yentl
Jack Lynn - Bookseller

“At the end of the day, when you're alone in the dark, the only thing that matters is this: the Law.”

Sylvester Stallone - Judge Dredd

“The law means everything to me and if any arm of the law is corrupt nothing can work, nothing. It is simple as that.”
James Tolkan - Assistant U.S. Atty. George Polito

“- Cole: Gloucester, we are talking about breaking the law here. I just want to make sure you understand that. No one is going to get hurt, but the law is going to be broken.
- Gloucester Hebbing: Laws are made to be broken, aren't they?”
J. T. Walsh - Cole
Charles Napier - Gloucester Hebbing

“A legal education means you will learn to speak in a new language. You will be taught to achieve insight into the world around you. And to sharply question what you know.”
Holland Taylor - Professor Stromwell

“- Vince LaRocca: How can you let them grill me there for six hours?
- Larry Merrick: I can't control how long they're gonna question you.
- Vince LaRocca: Did you go to law school, Harry?
- Larry Merrick: Yeah, I went to law school, Vince.
- Vince LaRocca: Did you graduate?
- Larry Merrick: Hey, I'm a lawyer, of course I graduated.”
Harvey Keitel - Vince LaRocca
Michael Durrell - Larry Merrick

“- Taphir: Our law is She, the goddess, who's your god?
- Dick: Our god? We don't have god, we do business.”
Laurie Sherman - Taphir
Harrison Muller - Dick

“- John Converse: I can't believe we did this.
- Bender: Sense of unreality is not a legal defence.”

Michael Moriarty - John Converse
David Opatoshu - Bender