Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mellor, David

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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 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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Proverb

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Stirner, Max

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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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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 good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Welles, Orson

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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