Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Keats, John

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Stirner, Max

10.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

13.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

14.

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

23.

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

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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

27.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

30.

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

34.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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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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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

40.

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

Mellor, David

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

Proverb

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

44.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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