Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Stirner, Max

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

Puzo, Mario

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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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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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Proverb

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

30.

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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Epitaph

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb