Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

10.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

11.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

12.

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

13.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

14.

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

15.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

16.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

19.

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

Diderot, Denis

20.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

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

Talmud, The

22.

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

23.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

24.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

25.

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

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

30.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

31.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

33.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

34.

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

35.

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

Keats, John

36.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Engels, Friedrich

39.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

40.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

41.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

42.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

43.

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

44.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

45.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

46.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

47.

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

Mcilvanney, William

48.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

Jones, Sir William

50.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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