Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Pomerantz, Hart

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

18.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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

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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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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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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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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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.