Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Proverb

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Mellor, David

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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

10.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

12.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

Pope, Alexander

15.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

16.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

17.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

20.

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

Froude, James A.

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

23.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

24.

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

25.

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

26.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

28.

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

29.

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

Engels, Friedrich

30.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

31.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

32.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

35.

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Gladstone, William E.

45.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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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

48.

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

Voltaire

49.

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

50.

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

Wilson, Earl