Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Law, without force, is impotent.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Diderot, Denis

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

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

Froude, James A.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

10.

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

11.

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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

14.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

15.

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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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

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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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Pope, Alexander

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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

25.

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

26.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

27.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

28.

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

29.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

30.

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

Wilson, Earl

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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 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.

33.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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

35.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

39.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

40.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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

44.

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

Proverb, Spanish

45.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

48.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

49.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb