Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

- Azarias

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Jones, Franklin P.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

10.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

12.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Proverb

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

25.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Trapp, June L.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

30.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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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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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Mellor, David

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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

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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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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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.