Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

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

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

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.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Frost, Robert

10.

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

11.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

12.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

13.

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

Wilson, Earl

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

15.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Becker, Ward

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

19.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb

22.

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.

23.

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

Gladstone, William E.

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

28.

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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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Halifax, Edward F.

33.

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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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

38.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

41.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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