Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

11.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

16.

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

17.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

18.

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

19.

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

Talmud, The

20.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

21.

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

Engels, Friedrich

22.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

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

25.

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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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

27.

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

28.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

29.

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

Frost, Robert

30.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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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

36.

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

Nizer, Louis

37.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

Young, Brigham

39.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

42.

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.

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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

44.

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

45.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

46.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

47.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

48.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

49.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

50.

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