Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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 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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Frost, Robert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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 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 sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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