Lawsuit Quotes

• A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.

  Janet Malcolm

  War, Law, Ordinary

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist and the Murderer”, p.63, Vintage

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• The purpose of [a lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Winning, Law, Knowing

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• I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  All Things, Property, Conscience

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• A lawsuit is the suicide of time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Suicide

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• Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

  Mills Lane

  Giving, Events, Doe

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• No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

  Andrew Tobias

  Lunch, Legal System, Faults

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pigs, Law, Machines

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Simple, Two

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles.

  Edgar Smith

  Determination, Persistence, Tea

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• A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

  George Herbert

  Compromise, Fats

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• And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

  Taylor Swift

  Hate, Copyright

  Song: Shake It Off, Album: 1989, 2014

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• Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Feet, Abuse, Cost

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• It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

  Robert Breault

  Happened

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• I think that's one of the major overriding issues of the day, to deal with frivolous lawsuits. I think it creates a tremendous burden on our economy, a tremendous burden on health care, it creates all of this medicine, which is good medicine. It would be one of the most important things we could do. It, also would help the economy. A tremendous amount of money is taken out of our economy and a tremendous that is created by these frivolous lawsuits.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Taken, Thinking, Medicine

  Source: www.glennbeck.com

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• Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

  Dale Dauten

  People, Lawyer, Knocking

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• I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Writing, Years

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• There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.

  Juvenal

  Bottom

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• My daughter is in the lawsuit because you need that for standing.

  Michael Newdow

  Daughter, Mother, Needs

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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• Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

  E. W. Howe

  Insult

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• Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Support, Ignorant, Asylums

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• I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

  Alan Alda

  Fun, Real, People

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• A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties since 1887. They're seeking $100 billion. Here's the good news: The government has responded what I believe is an appropriate counteroffer: A two-cent Navajo stamp.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Native American, Class

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• We have laws on the books. If somebody's discriminating against you, I strongly advocate suing them. That's the most effective thing you can do in terms of fighting racism. People understand that they're vulnerable to lawsuit.

  Shelby Steele

  Book, Fighting, Law

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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• New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary.

  Colin Quinn

  New York, Chocolate, Three

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