Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Epitaph

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

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

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

10.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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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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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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Talmud, The

16.

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

Engels, Friedrich

17.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis 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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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

24.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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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

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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

30.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

31.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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

Wilson, Earl

36.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

37.

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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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.

44.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

45.

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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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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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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