Quotes about Legal Exploitation

Orson Scott Card

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

Norman Thomas

The law firms of the city swoop down like vultures on the land owners of any neighborhood where a civic improvement is planned, sometimes fifteen years in advance of actual sale, and "sign them up" in a house to house canvass with an agreement that the law firm shall receive 5 per cent of the total award. That means, of course, $50,000 for a million dollar award which can often be secured from friendly courts with very little labor. The labor, in fact, is nearly all in getting the clients and holding them together. The actual condemnation cases are perfunctory affairs. The claimants have an expert who has become known as a professional optimist. The city has an expert who is only slightly less optimistic.

As long as there have been attorneys and organized government, there have been attorney abuses of whatever systems exist. This was a major problem throughout America and continues to this day. For many interactions with government, attorneys and their skills are absolutely necessary. But for others, they are not. It is very difficult for many people to tell the difference, and the more bureaucratic and non-transparent the processes are, the easier it is for unscrupulous attorneys to take advantage.

Charles Macklin

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Mike Tyson

One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

Robert A. Heinlein

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

Jerry Only

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

Abraham Lincoln

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?

Legal Exploitation Quotes