Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Engels, Friedrich

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Becker, Ward

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Froude, James A.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb

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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Stirner, Max

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Puzo, Mario

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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

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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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Keats, John

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

Moore, Thomas

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