Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Ostman, Virginia

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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

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

10.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

11.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Talmud, The

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

Trapp, June L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Young, Brigham

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Epitaph

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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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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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

Gladstone, William E.

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

41.

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Engels, Friedrich

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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.