Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Proverb

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Frost, Robert

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Gladstone, William E.

19.

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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Welles, Orson

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mellor, David

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De