Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Puzo, Mario

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Voltaire

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

Talmud, The

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Stirner, Max

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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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

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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

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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

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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Keats, John

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