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, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

Proverb

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

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mellor, David

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Trapp, June L.

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Welles, Orson

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