Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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 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

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

10.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Proverb

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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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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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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