Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Froude, James A.

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

Keats, John

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

10.

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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 jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilson, Earl

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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

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

43.

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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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver