Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

Sade, Marquis De

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Johnson, Samuel

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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 often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Younger, Evelle

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