Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Epitaph

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

10.

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

11.

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

12.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Keats, John

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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

18.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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

Pope, Alexander

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Wilson, Earl

26.

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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

28.

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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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Irving, Washington

32.

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

Engels, Friedrich

33.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

34.

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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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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.

39.

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

40.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

47.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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