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

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Wilson, Earl

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Stirner, Max

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

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

Voltaire

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

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

Welles, Orson

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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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 law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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 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