Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Young, Brigham

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

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.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

10.

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

12.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

13.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

14.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

25.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

27.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

31.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

34.

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

Talmud, The

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

39.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mellor, David

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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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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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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

48.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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