Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

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

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

Jones, Sir William

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.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Becker, Ward

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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 cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Proverb

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Stirner, Max