Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about 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.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

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.

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

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mellor, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Martineau, Harriet

18.

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

Stirner, Max

19.

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

20.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Epitaph

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

Voltaire

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Proverb

31.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Jones, Sir William

33.

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

34.

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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Becker, Ward

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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

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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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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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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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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Keats, John

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De