Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mellor, David

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pomerantz, Hart

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Moore, Thomas

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Voltaire

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

Welles, Orson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb

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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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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Wilson, Earl

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Proverb

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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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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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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 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.

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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Keats, John

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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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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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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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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 court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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