Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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

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

Owen, Robert

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Proverb

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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

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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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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mellor, David

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

Talmud, The

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

Epitaph

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

43.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Gladstone, William E.