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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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

Frost, Robert

10.

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

Proverb

12.

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

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Froude, James A.

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

28.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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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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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 -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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 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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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.