Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

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

Welles, Orson

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

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

10.

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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Pope, Alexander

19.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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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

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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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

25.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

28.

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

Nizer, Louis

29.

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

Wilson, Earl

30.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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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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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

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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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

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.