Quotes about law and lawyers

"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 on law and lawyers
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"Law is a bottomless pit."

Arbuthnot, John on law and lawyers
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"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 on law and lawyers   

"The law is reason, free from passion."

Aristotle on law and lawyers
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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 on law and lawyers   

"Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances."

Azarias on law and lawyers
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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 on law and lawyers   

"Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete."

Bagehot, Walter on law and lawyers   

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

Becker, Ward on law and lawyers
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"Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time."

Beecher, Henry Ward on law and lawyers
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"Every law is an infraction of liberty."

Bentham, Jeremy on law and lawyers   

"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."

Bentham, Jeremy on law and lawyers   

"The law is light."

Bible on law and lawyers   

"Where there is no law there is no transgression."

Bible on law and lawyers   

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

Bismarck, Otto Von on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers
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"A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500."

Brewster, Benjamin on law and lawyers
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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. on law and lawyers
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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 on law and lawyers   

"Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny."

Burke, Edmund on law and lawyers
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"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."

Burke, Edmund on law and lawyers   

"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

Burke, Edmund on law and lawyers   

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"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature and of nations."

Burke, Edmund on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."

Butler, Samuel on law and lawyers
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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. on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

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

Cervantes, Miguel De on law and lawyers   

"Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has."

Chandler, Raymond on law and lawyers   

"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. on law and lawyers   

"The good of the people is the greatest law."

Cicero, Marcus T. on law and lawyers
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"Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder."

Colton, Charles Caleb on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress."

Crisp, Quentin on law and lawyers   

"The trouble with law is lawyers."

Darrow, Clarence on law and lawyers
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"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."

Dickens, Charles on law and lawyers
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"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 on law and lawyers   

"The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law."

Diderot, Denis on law and lawyers