Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Puzo, Mario

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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

12.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mellor, David

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

Froude, James A.

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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

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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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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.

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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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

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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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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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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

34.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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 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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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