Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Owen, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

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

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

10.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

12.

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

Wilson, Earl

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

15.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

16.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

17.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

19.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

20.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

21.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

22.

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

23.

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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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

25.

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

Gladstone, William E.

26.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

28.

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

Welles, Orson

29.

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

Jones, Sir William

30.

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Puzo, Mario

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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

45.

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

Proverb

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

Voltaire

48.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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