
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 56
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 56
“Shot through the Heart, And You're to Blame. Darlin' You give love a bad name.”
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)
Ch. 24 http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncomrev24.html
A People's History of the United States (1980)
Context: One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.
“When lawyers take what they would give
And doctors give what they would take.”
Latterday Warnings; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.”
J. Jonathan Gabay. Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium, p. 550. Elsevier 2007.
The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1984), p. 65.
Alternate version" Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition.
in "Christianity as an enfolding circle," U.S. News & World Report (June 26, 1989), p. 57
"Sounding Brass, Tinkling Cymbal" in Hell's Cartographers (1975) edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison