Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Trapp, June L.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Talmud, The

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Keats, John

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

31.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Proverb

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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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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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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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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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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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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