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

Cam, Helen M.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Proverb

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 law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Frost, Robert

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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.

22.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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 good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Jones, Sir William

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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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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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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

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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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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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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