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

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

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

Engels, Friedrich

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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 United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Welles, Orson

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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry 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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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Wilson, Earl

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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.