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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Froude, James A.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Stirner, Max

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Diderot, Denis

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Talmud, The

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

Welles, Orson

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Frost, Robert

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

Epitaph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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