If there's one thing I've learned, it's that when you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Wealth allows people to bend legal systems to their favor.
- In plain terms
- Money makes the law bend your way.
- What can you take from it?
- Money often influences justice unfairly.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does money buy justice?
Another view
It assumes wealth always guarantees legal advantage.
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