Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Proverb

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Erasmus, Desiderius

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Younger, Evelle

11.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

Keats, John

14.

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

Mellor, David

17.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

18.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

19.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

20.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

22.

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

Froude, James A.

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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

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Frost, Robert

28.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

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

30.

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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

34.

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

Epitaph

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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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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

38.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

39.

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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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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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

47.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Gladstone, William E.

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas