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

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Welles, Orson

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

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

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

Owen, Robert

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Stirner, Max

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Keats, John

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Asoka

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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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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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

Proverb

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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Young, Brigham

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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