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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Epitaph

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

Froude, James A.

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

Mencken, H. L.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

10.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Keats, John

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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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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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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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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 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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

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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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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Welles, Orson

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nizer, Louis

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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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