Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

20.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

21.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

23.

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

25.

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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

27.

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

Nizer, Louis

28.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

30.

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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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

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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

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

34.

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

Epitaph

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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

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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

38.

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

Wilson, Earl

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

40.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.