Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

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

10.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

12.

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

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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb

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

Froude, James A.

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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

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

31.

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

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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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 law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Becker, Ward

42.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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