Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Younger, Evelle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Proverb

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Welles, Orson

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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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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

31.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Talmud, The

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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