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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Keats, John

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

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

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Becker, Ward

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

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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, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Proverb

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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