Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

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

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

11.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Stirner, Max

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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

33.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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 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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Proverb

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Law, without force, is impotent.