Logo
Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrus

Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor. – Bill Messing, quoted in Dream World, by Fred Woodworth

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Justice & Law
category

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

Category:
Justice & Law

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

Category:
Justice & Law

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. – H.L. Mencken

Category:
Justice & Law

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. – Aristotle, Politics

Category:
Justice & Law

Random Quotes

When everything happens to you when youre so young, youre very lucky, but by the same token, youre never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same. – Lauren Bacall

Category:
Success

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. – Robert Morgan

Category:
Poetry

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. – Jane Austen

Category:
Politics

Im a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. – Shaquille ONeal

Category:
movies