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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

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

10.

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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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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 law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Becker, Ward

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

Mellor, David

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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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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

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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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

43.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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