Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Nizer, Louis

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stirner, Max

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Puzo, Mario

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 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

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Epitaph

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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.

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Irving, Washington

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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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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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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

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

Proverb

29.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Voltaire

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The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Mellor, David

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.