Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

- Asoka

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

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

Proverb

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Owen, Robert

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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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 successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Keats, John

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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De