Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Stirner, Max

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Froude, James A.

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

Keats, John

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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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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Engels, Friedrich

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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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

Proverb

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Welles, Orson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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 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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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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