Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Proverb

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Engels, Friedrich

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Goldman, Emma

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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 only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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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

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