Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Talmud, The

3.

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

Becker, Ward

4.

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

5.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

6.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

7.

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

8.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

9.

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

Moore, Thomas

10.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

12.

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

Jones, Sir William

13.

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

Mellor, David

14.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

15.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

16.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

19.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

20.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

22.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Froude, James A.

27.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

30.

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

31.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

32.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

33.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

35.

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

36.

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

37.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

38.

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

Epitaph

39.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

40.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

41.

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

42.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

43.

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

44.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

46.

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

49.

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

Voltaire

50.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.