Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Talmud, The

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

Welles, Orson

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Engels, Friedrich

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Cervantes, Miguel 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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stirner, Max

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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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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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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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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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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

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther