Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander