Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Mellor, David

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

19.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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 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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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 best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius