Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Frost, Robert

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

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Proverb

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Welles, Orson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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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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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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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Young, Brigham

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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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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius