Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Epitaph

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mellor, David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Engels, Friedrich

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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 law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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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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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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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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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Proverb

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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

Talmud, The

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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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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 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

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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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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying