Lawrence M. Friedman famous quotes

The ethical practices of lawyers are probably no worse than those of other professions. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by claiming in a sanctimonious way that they are interested only in justice, not power or wealth. They also suffer guilt by association. Their clients are often people in trouble. Saints need no lawyers: gangsters do.
-- Lawrence M. Friedman

#Practice #Justice #People

Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government...Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if prosecuted and conviction follows, results in punishment.
-- Lawrence M. Friedman

#Government #Law #Punishment

Law..is too important to be left to the lawyers.
-- Lawrence M. Friedman

#Law #Important #Lawyer

Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.
-- Lawrence M. Friedman

#Sex #Children #Writing

Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.