Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

10.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Young, Brigham

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Froude, James A.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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 clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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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 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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Mellor, David

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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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.

Anacharsis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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