Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Sprecht, Robert D.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Talmud, The

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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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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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

29.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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

Becker, Ward

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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 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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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

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

Puzo, Mario