Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Talmud, The

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

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Becker, Ward

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Frost, Robert

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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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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Swift, Jonathan

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb

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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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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mellor, David

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.