Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

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

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

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

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Froude, James A.

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Keats, John

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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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.