Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Petty laws breed great crimes.

- Ouida

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

16.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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

Irving, Washington

19.

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

Keats, John

20.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

21.

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.

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

24.

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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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.

26.

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

Wilson, Earl

27.

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

28.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

29.

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

30.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

38.

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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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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

Mellor, David

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

43.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

49.

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

Talmud, The

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

Cervantes, Miguel De