Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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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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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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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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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

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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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Sade, Marquis De

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Trapp, June L.

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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

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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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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb