Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

Proverb

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mellor, David

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Frost, Robert

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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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.

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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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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Keats, John

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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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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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

Moore, Thomas

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Talmud, The

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

Thoreau, Henry David