Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Epitaph

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

Proverb

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Jones, Sir William

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Mellor, David

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