Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Stirner, Max

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Wilson, Earl

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Shakespeare, William

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto 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

10.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

11.

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

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

Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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

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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis 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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Welles, Orson

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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

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Epitaph

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

Becker, Ward

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

Mille, Cecil B. De