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A good lawyer is a bad christian.

-John Lothrop Motley

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A Good Lawyer Is A Bad Christian.

John Lothrop Motley

A good lawyer is a bad christian.

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That the religious right completely took over the word christian is a given. at one time, phrases such as christian charity and christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. to perform a "christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. now, christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- christian nation, christian morality, christian values, christian family.

The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. if it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.

A christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a christian; and truth is truth however learned. but while truth is truth however learned, the bearing of truth, the meaning of truth, the purpose of truth, even in the sphere of mathematics, seem entirely different to the christian from that which they seem to the non-christian; and that is why a truly christian education is possible only when christian conviction underlies not a part but all, of the curriculum of the school.

I wanted to be a lawyer. i realized i don't really want to be a lawyer. i want to play a lawyer. thank god i figured that out.

I enjoyed [playing lawyer in from the hip] as an ode to my dad. my dad went to harvard and harvard law school, so he had some friends that practiced in boston. so, there was a big law firm that he hooked me up with the senior partner, then the senior partner hooked me up with a young lawyer who worked in the firm. and the young lawyer was married to a public defender. so i would hang out with them, and i could see both sides of it, those that are corporate attorneys and those that help the poor and the disenfranchised.

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. i've met people who believe in god that are good and that are bad. and i've met people who don't believe in god that are good and that are bad. so, just be good. i'm good. not cos i think i'll go to heaven but because when i do something bad, i feel bad. and when i do something good, i feel good.

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