Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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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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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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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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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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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

Jones, Sir William

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Stirner, Max

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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

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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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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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 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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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb