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

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

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

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

I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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

Stirner, Max

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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 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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Keats, John

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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 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

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Hughes, Charles Evans