Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Keats, John

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Proverb

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Frost, Robert

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.