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

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Stirner, Max

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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 judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Talmud, The

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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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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius