Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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

Frost, Robert

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

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Keats, John

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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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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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stirner, Max

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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

16.

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

Wilson, Earl

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Proverb

20.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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.

29.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

30.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

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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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

40.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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