Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Jones, Sir William

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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.

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Wilson, Earl

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Nizer, Louis

11.

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

12.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

19.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

20.

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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

Proverb

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

30.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

31.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

35.

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

Epitaph

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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.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Mellor, David

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

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

Welles, Orson

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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

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

Mille, Cecil B. De