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

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Welles, Orson

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

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

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Shakespeare, William

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gladstone, William E.

12.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Becker, Ward

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Stirner, Max

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

Pomerantz, Hart