Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Engels, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Stirner, Max

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

10.

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

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Frost, Robert

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

Talmud, The

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

Voltaire

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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 only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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