Bernhard Schlink Quotes About Lawyers

Quotes about: Lawyers

• What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Book, Law, Lawyer

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.91, Vintage

• The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Successful, Law, Stories

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.182, Vintage

• There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Teacher, Doctors, Want

  "On the moral high ground' by Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2008.

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