Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

- Saying

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Young, Brigham

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

17.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

18.

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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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Irving, Washington

25.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

28.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

29.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

30.

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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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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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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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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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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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Froude, James A.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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

49.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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