Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Keats, John

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

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Frost, Robert

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

Younger, Evelle

31.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Martineau, Harriet

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

Stirner, Max

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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