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

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

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Frost, Robert

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Younger, Evelle

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Talmud, The

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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.