Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Jones, Sir William

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

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

Shakespeare, William

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Irving, Washington

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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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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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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Keats, John

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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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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Talmud, The

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

Stirner, Max

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Engels, Friedrich