Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mcilvanney, William

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

1.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

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

3.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

4.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

5.

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

6.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

7.

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

Diderot, Denis

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

11.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

12.

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

Gladstone, William E.

13.

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

Owen, Robert

14.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

Frost, Robert

16.

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

Moore, Thomas

17.

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

Mcilvanney, William

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

20.

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

Talmud, The

21.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

27.

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

Wilson, Earl

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

30.

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

31.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

32.

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

Keats, John

33.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

34.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

35.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

36.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

37.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

38.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

39.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

40.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

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

Mencken, H. L.

42.

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Mellor, David

47.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.