Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

- Saying

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Becker, Ward

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

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Pomerantz, Hart

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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.

10.

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

11.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

12.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

13.

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

Proverb

15.

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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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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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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

Jones, Franklin P.

20.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

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

Puzo, Mario

22.

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

Keats, John

23.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

24.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

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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

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

Wilson, Earl

30.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

31.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

32.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

33.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Engels, Friedrich

40.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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

46.

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

Young, Brigham

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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

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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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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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