Stephen Gillers quotes

Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!
-- Stephen Gillers

#Justice #Judging #Lawyer

Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.
-- Stephen Gillers

#Movie #Home #Criminals

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.

I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.

U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.