Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

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

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Mellor, David

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

Epitaph

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Keats, John

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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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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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Engels, Friedrich

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph