Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Becker, Ward

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

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

11.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

12.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Mellor, David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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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

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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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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

25.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

Keats, John

30.

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

Stirner, Max

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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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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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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Trapp, June L.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb

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

Epitaph

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson