Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

Younger, Evelle

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

10.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

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

Epitaph

12.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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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

19.

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

Moore, Thomas

20.

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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

27.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

28.

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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

30.

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

31.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Wilson, Earl

34.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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

40.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

41.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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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

45.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

46.

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

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

Proverb

49.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson