Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Talmud, The

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 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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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Mcilvanney, William

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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

Welles, Orson

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