Litigation Quotes

“Beth will come back and coach Gretchen and Kailey on how to say the right things. I don't know if anyone is coaching the boys, but it seems unfair. Why do Gretchen and Kailey have to learn how to be the right kind of victims?”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“lIf someone tries to steal your watch, by all means fight them off. If someone sues you for your watch, hand it over and be glad you got away so lightly.”
― John Mortimer

“Be suspicious of the litigious.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I cannot concern myself with the intolerable affections and frivolous actions of a cruel, selfish, and litigious society. I must treasure the invisible muteness and inherent intelligence that nature blessed me with at birth. I shall endeavor to find beauty in living, striving, suffering, and dying in nature’s glorious wonderland of grasslands, forest, rivers, and seas situated under an of infinite canopy of glittering stars. Perhaps when I reach the end of this long scroll I will finally leave behind me the tragic sense of ignobly that haunts my nights and begin living in a world filled with infinite sunshine and boundless delight.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Through no-fault divorce, one parent can now declare unilaterally that the marriage has "broken down" and invite the state in to take control and remove the other parent without the parent having committed any legal transgression. What the government then offers to the parent who invites it in is the promise that her invitation will be rewarded; the state will establish her as a puppet government, a satrap of the state within the family. This requires that not the faithless but the faithful parent be punished.”
― Stephen Baskerville

“Litigation was war. A war that usually inflicted heavy casualties on both sides.”
― Kenneth Eade, Predatory Kill

“I was one of those unfortunates adopted by upper middle-class professionals and nurtured in an environment of learning, art and a socio-religious culture steeped in more than 2000 years of Talmudic tradition. Not everyone is lucky enough to have been raised in a whiskey tango trailer park by a bow-legged female whose sole qualification for motherhood is a womb that happened to catch a sperm of a passing truck driver.”
― Generation Kill

“Courtrooms are battlegrounds where society’s bullies and the oppressed clash, where the victims of abusers seek recompense, and where parties cheated by scalawags seek retribution. Because of the high stakes involved, the parties are not always honest, and justice depends upon an array of factors including the prevailing case precedent, the skills of the legal advocates, and the merits of each party’s claims and counterclaims.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We find an abundance of anger and the desire to destroy the opposition in any competitive human environment. Hate sparks contest, and in the modern world, attorneys are the paid gladiators of warring parties. Attorneys are for hire to the highest bidder. Attorneys ply their trade by dealing in the commerce of anger and hatred.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I need to sue. I need to make money for this firm. For that I need a victim... You need to blame somebody. this is America.”
― Edwin Poole

“Edgar Rawls knows the case for the world is made anew every single day, that each new dawn brings a relitigation of man’s first disobedience and a shot at one more stay of execution.”
― Alex Paknadel, Redfork

“Pell, a leader of a faith-based organisation, acquiesced in a process where his rolled-gold lawyers, whom he instructed to go hard, spent an inordinate amount of money defending Church coffers against a man who had been abused by a dodgy priest with other victims. (p.114)”
― Louise Milligan, Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell

“Women are infantilized, demeaned, deprived of dignity, denied their rights, and all in the name of the rule of law. The elite approach followed within the courtrooms often asserts supremacy while excluding the poor, women, children, Dalits, tribals, and other subaltern groups. In itself, a court cannot change the law, yet, the court has the power to interpret and implement the given law in a sensitive manner while upholding the constitutional spirit and values, and that is what a litigant
expects and society hopes for. However, this is not happening.”
― Shalu Nigam

“How statutory bodies waste public money in fruitless litigation to satisfy misplaced ego is demonstrated by this petition.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“When words become weapons, reputations go to trial.”
― Olawale Daniel, Mastering the Crypto World: Understanding and Trading Cryptocurrencies for Profits

“The power of the bench stems from the fear of the bar on compromising the cause of its clientele.”
― BS Murthy

“Tickler: I hate novelties. Is the prosecution mania about to subside, think you? Now-a-days, every word is said to be actionable. You cannot open your mouth, or put pen to paper, without feeing a libel-lawyer. An Edinburgh Whig, and really some of the London ones seem no better, is an animal without a skin. [The Whigs] have entered into a cowardly compact to prosecute every syllable that shall ever be written against any one of their degraded and slanderous selves.”
― John Wilson, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 63: 1822-04