Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Epitaph

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Proverb, Spanish

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

15.

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

16.

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

Mellor, David

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

Stirner, Max

18.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

19.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

21.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

22.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

23.

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

Proverb

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

32.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Voltaire

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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.