Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

10.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

11.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Becker, Ward

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

Irving, Washington

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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

23.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

Keats, John

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Younger, Evelle

29.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

30.

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

Wilson, Earl

31.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

33.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

34.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

35.

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

Welles, Orson

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Samuel

39.

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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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 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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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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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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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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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.

46.

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

Voltaire

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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