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

Moore, Thomas

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

Keats, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Welles, Orson

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

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

Nizer, Louis

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

14.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

16.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Young, Brigham

24.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

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

Diderot, Denis

26.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

28.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Trapp, June L.

31.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

32.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

34.

Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Epitaph

36.

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

37.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

38.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

40.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

42.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

43.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

48.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

49.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

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