Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Stirner, Max

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

Gladstone, William E.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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

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

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.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Proverb

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

Keats, John

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.