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

Hughes, Charles Evans

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Welles, Orson

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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.

10.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

11.

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

12.

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

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

Pope, Alexander

15.

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

Wilson, Earl

16.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

17.

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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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.

24.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

28.

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

Becker, Ward

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Irving, Washington

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

Gladstone, William E.

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

41.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

44.

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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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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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

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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