Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Keats, John

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

12.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

13.

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

Puzo, Mario

14.

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

Engels, Friedrich

15.

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

Younger, Evelle

16.

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

17.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

22.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

25.

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

Wilson, Earl

26.

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

Gladstone, William E.

27.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

28.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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.

31.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

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

33.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

50.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver