Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Freedom is not enough.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ‚cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Racism is real in this country.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

A right delayed is a right denied.

I like to work.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.