The quotation book opens its law section with Bismarck's comparison between legislation and sausage making. Anatole France's line about rich and poor being equally forbidden to sleep under bridges exposes formal equality that ignores unequal circumstances. George Bernard Shaw questions whether popular lawmaking is easier than writing a durable play, while Voltaire and Jeremy Bentham turn lawsuits and legal ignorance into criticism of the profession. Later jokes about fees and delay show how legal process can punish even a nominal winner. Together the passages make law an object of political, social, and professional critique rather than a neutral list of rules.
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Law, inequality, and lawyers in quotation
A run of legal quotations turns lawmaking, formal equality, lawsuits, professional expertise, fees, and delay into compact political criticism.