Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

15.

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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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Proverb

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

24.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

26.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

27.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

31.

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

35.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

40.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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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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Arendt, Hannah

46.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund