Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Talmud, The

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

12.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

18.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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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 lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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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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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

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Owen, Robert

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Becker, Ward

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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