A Quote by H. L. Mencken

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

H. L. Mencken

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Against Away Lawyer Protects Robbery Taking Temptation Us

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H. L. Mencken
American - Writer
September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in society would expect a policeman should do. That temptation hits the police force at the same time as the temptation to take those drugs that are readily available hits the people on the streets.

Denzel Washington

The weak and the defenseless in this world invite aggression from others. The best way we can serve peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think we are weak and, for that reason, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dare entertain any aggressive designs against us. Pakistan has come to stay and no power on earth can destroy it

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I was a lawyer and I have been married to a lawyer. I think one lawyer per household is plenty. It's a good quota for us.

Kellyanne Conway

I don't shy away from standing up against the president or other people who I think are taking us in the wrong direction.

Tina Smith

I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take a healthy patriotism a little too far. For liberals the temptation is to say the purpose of politics is to straightforwardly bring the kingdom of God to Earth. For conservatives, I talk about Glenn Beck, the temptation is more apocalyptic and messianic, it's the temptation to say we did have a covenant with God, a literal covenant beginning with the Founding, and we are, like Israel in the Old Testament, falling away from it.

Ross Douthat

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

Mata Amritanandamayi

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

Mark Twain

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

W. E. B. Du Bois

It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good.

Alphonsus Liguori

Until we actually get legislation that protects our rights online, we will continue to fight against stupid, lobbyist-bought legislation. We want bills that protect us, not ones that destroy us.

Alexis Ohanian

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

Mary Catherwood

Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.