Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Petty laws breed great crimes.

- Ouida

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Becker, Ward

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Young, Brigham

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.

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

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

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Jones, Sir William

10.

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

Stirner, Max

11.

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

12.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

18.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

19.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

20.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

21.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

22.

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

23.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

24.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Wilson, Earl

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

35.

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

36.

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

37.

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

Frost, Robert

38.

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

Puzo, Mario

39.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

40.

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

41.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

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

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

45.

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

46.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

47.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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.

50.

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