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

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

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

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

10.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

11.

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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The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Keats, John

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

Becker, Ward

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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

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

Talmud, The

21.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

22.

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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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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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

Welles, Orson

29.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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

Gladstone, William E.

32.

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 best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

34.

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

Stirner, Max

35.

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

Mellor, David

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Epitaph

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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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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.

42.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

44.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

47.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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