Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Engels, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

10.

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

Stirner, Max

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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

18.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Keats, John

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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

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Mellor, David

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

40.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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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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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

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Becker, Ward

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence