Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

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

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.

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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Proverb

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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.