Dahlia Lithwick Quotes

Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? … Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our system annually?

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.

America is the paradise of lawyers.

[Describing lawyers:] ... men who get their living intirely from the quarrils, follys, disputes and distresses of the Many, and the intricacy of our Laws.

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?.

Lawyers, and others concerned in Court Business, will probably many of them be against a plentiful Currency; because People in that Case will have less Occasion to run in Debt, and consequently less Occasion to go to Law and Sue one another for their Debts. Tho' I know some even among these Gentlemen, that regard the Publick Good before their own apparent private Interest.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores!

We live in a very litigious society. I've never sued anybody. I certainly can imagine a situation where I might sue, but it seems more or less in bad taste.

Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.