Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Frost, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Puzo, Mario

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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

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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Proverb

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mellor, David

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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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