Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Welles, Orson

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

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

Wilson, Earl

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Froude, James A.

10.

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

Stirner, Max

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pope, Alexander

13.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Gladstone, William E.

24.

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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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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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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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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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Welles, Orson

32.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

33.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

34.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

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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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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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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.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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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.