Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Gladstone, William E.

12.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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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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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

21.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

23.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Proverb

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Epitaph

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Stirner, Max

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius