Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

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

Younger, Evelle

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

10.

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

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

13.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

15.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

16.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

17.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

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

Puzo, Mario

19.

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

20.

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

Keats, John

21.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

22.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

25.

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

26.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

27.

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

Wilson, Earl

28.

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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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

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

32.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

Voltaire

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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

37.

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

Proverb

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Talmud, The

40.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

41.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

43.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

44.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

45.

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

46.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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 law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb