Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 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

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Proverb

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Voltaire

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

Becker, Ward

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Froude, James A.

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

Mcilvanney, William