Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

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

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

10.

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

11.

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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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

13.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

14.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

15.

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

16.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

17.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

Mcilvanney, William

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

22.

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

Welles, Orson

23.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Puzo, Mario

25.

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.

26.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

32.

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

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

35.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

36.

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

Wilson, Earl

37.

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

38.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

39.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Gladstone, William E.

43.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

44.

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

Irving, Washington

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry