Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

- Azarias

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Stirner, Max

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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