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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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

Moore, Thomas

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

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Frost, Robert

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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

Young, Brigham

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

41.

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

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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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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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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