Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

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

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

34.

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

Jones, Sir William

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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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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.

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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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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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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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Welles, Orson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington