Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Moore, Thomas

As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

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

11.

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

Becker, Ward

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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

22.

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 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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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

25.

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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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

27.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

28.

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

29.

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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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 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.

32.

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

Froude, James A.

33.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

34.

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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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

37.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

39.

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

Keats, John

40.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Gladstone, William E.

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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