Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Mellor, David

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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 helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Becker, Ward

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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.

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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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.

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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb

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

Stirner, Max

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

Shakespeare, William

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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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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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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo