Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

- Owen, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean 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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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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