Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

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

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

Becker, Ward

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Stirner, Max

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Welles, Orson

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

22.

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

Epitaph

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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 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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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 lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Puzo, Mario

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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.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady