Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

- Saying

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

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

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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

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

Welles, Orson

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

Gladstone, William E.

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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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

29.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Jones, Sir William

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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb, Spanish