Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

10.

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

11.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

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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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Young, Brigham

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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

Owen, Robert

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

Welles, Orson

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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.

41.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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