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

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

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.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Moore, Thomas

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Keats, John

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Pope, Alexander

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

29.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Welles, Orson

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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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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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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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

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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Epitaph

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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel