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"Every good lawyer knows that if there is something in his client's cause that so personally offends you, morally, religiously, or if it so offends you that you think it would undermine your ability to do your duty as a lawyer, then you shouldn't take it on."
""Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths."
"Let us kill all lawyers"
"It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure."
"I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character."
"Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers."
"Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer."
"Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature."
"As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy."
"Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist."
"I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language."
"It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors."
"Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers."
"I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain."
"If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that."
"Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers."
"Sitting in the darkness of the cinema, I got to see another world. This imaginary world was a refuge for many of us. Of course, the films were controlled and censored by the regime. But I still thought, around this time, that maybe making films would be good for me. I thought of expressing myself through this medium, and of doing something for the Kurds. The options were clear: either I'd work as a lawyer under the Baath regime or make movies independently."
"The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000."
"Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles."
"Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different ."
