Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Frost, Robert

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Jones, Sir William

10.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Puzo, Mario

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Moore, Thomas

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Keats, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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Asoka

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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