Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mcilvanney, William

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Keats, John

10.

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

11.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

15.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Welles, Orson

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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

20.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

22.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

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

Pope, Alexander

24.

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

25.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

28.

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

29.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

30.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

31.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

32.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

33.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

36.

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 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

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

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

Trapp, June L.

40.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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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

42.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

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

Voltaire

46.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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

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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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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