Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Irving, Washington

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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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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jones, Sir William

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Voltaire

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

Engels, Friedrich

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.