Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Keats, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

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

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Stirner, Max

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Pope, Alexander

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Talmud, The

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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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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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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

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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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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

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Welles, Orson

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Becker, Ward

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

Gandhi, Mahatma