Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

- Duncan, Isadora

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

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

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Welles, Orson

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

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Owen, Robert

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

12.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

15.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

18.

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

Mellor, David

19.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

20.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

21.

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

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

24.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

25.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

28.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

29.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

30.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

33.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

34.

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

35.

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

Talmud, The

36.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

37.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

38.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Frost, Robert

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

48.

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

Froude, James A.

49.

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

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

Puzo, Mario