Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

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

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

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 law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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

10.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

11.

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

Younger, Evelle

12.

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

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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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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

19.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

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

Mellor, David

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

23.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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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 clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

28.

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

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

30.

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 spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

32.

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

Wilson, Earl

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Keats, John

37.

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

Talmud, The

38.

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

Welles, Orson

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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.

40.

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

41.

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

Stirner, Max

42.

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

Froude, James A.

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

45.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

46.

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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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

48.

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

Diderot, Denis

49.

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