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

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mcilvanney, William

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

15.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

16.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

18.

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

Puzo, Mario

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

22.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

26.

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

27.

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

Frost, Robert

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

32.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

40.

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

Gladstone, William E.

41.

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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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 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

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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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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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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

47.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

49.

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

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas