Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

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

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

La Bruyere, Jean 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

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

10.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

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

12.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

14.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

15.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

16.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

20.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

21.

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

Mellor, David

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

26.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

27.

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

Wilson, Earl

28.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

29.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

31.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

32.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

33.

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

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

37.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

38.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

39.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

40.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Stirner, Max

44.

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

45.

Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

48.

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

49.

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

Talmud, The

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.