Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pope, Alexander

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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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 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 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

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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

Stirner, Max

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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Welles, Orson

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De