Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

- Pomerantz, Hart

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Moore, Thomas

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Frost, Robert

11.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

12.

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

Mellor, David

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

Welles, Orson

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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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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

20.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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 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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

30.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Epitaph

35.

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

Talmud, The

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Proverb

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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Keats, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma