Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Froude, James A.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Becker, Ward

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stirner, Max

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.