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

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

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

Moore, Thomas

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Engels, Friedrich

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Talmud, The

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Stirner, Max

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Becker, Ward

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

Keats, John

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Frost, Robert

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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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