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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Froude, James A.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Young, Brigham

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Gladstone, William E.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Frost, Robert

12.

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

Trapp, June L.

13.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

14.

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

Engels, Friedrich

15.

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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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 magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Moore, Thomas

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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

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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

27.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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

30.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Welles, Orson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De