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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Stirner, Max

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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.

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Sade, Marquis De

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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

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

Mcilvanney, William

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.