Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb

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

Mencken, H. L.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

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

Frost, Robert

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Moore, Thomas

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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.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Becker, Ward

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Stirner, Max

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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

33.

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

Proverb

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Welles, Orson

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Shakespeare, William