Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Owen, Robert

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

15.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

16.

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

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

22.

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

Jones, Sir William

23.

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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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

25.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

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

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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.

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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

39.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

40.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Froude, James A.

42.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

43.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

44.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

45.

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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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