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

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

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Keats, John

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mellor, David

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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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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

33.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Gladstone, William E.

35.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Becker, Ward

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Welles, Orson

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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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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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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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 the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV