Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Young, Brigham

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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.

As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Welles, Orson

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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

33.

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell