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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Young, Brigham

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 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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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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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb

40.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mellor, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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