Anne-Marie Slaughter Quotes

300 million Americans every day decide to settle their disputes in courts of law rather than settle them in the streets with sticks and stones.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.

Nobody likes going to court.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

Litigation solves everything.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

In India, nobody sues anybody.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

there shall be in every court, three justices or commissioners, who shall sit with the twelve men of the neighborhood, with them to hear all causes, and to assist the said twelve men of the neighborhood in case of law; and that they the said justices shall pronounce such judgment as they shall receive from, and be directed by the said twelve men in whom only the judgment resides, and not otherwise.

Where matters of dispute are made the subject of arbitration under the forms of law. Human judgment is never unerring, and is rarely regarded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest.

Lawsuits take a long time.

When 'The People's Court' came along, I had an opportunity to really teach people about law. It was very important to me.

All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.