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 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

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stirner, Max

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

10.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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

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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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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.

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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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

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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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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

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Mellor, David

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

Gladstone, William E.

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart