Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mellor, David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Epitaph

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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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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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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.