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

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Younger, Evelle

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb

10.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

13.

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

Mcilvanney, William

14.

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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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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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

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

Irving, Washington

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Gladstone, William E.

29.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

30.

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

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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

Pope, Alexander

46.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bismarck, Otto Von