Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The law is reason, free from passion.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Pope, Alexander

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Puzo, Mario

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Becker, Ward

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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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 court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.