Quotes about law and lawyers

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

Owen, Robert on law and lawyers   

"Law, without force, is impotent."

Pascal, Blaise on law and lawyers   

"Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different."

Pomerantz, Hart on law and lawyers   

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

Pope, Alexander on law and lawyers   

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

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"The more laws the less justice."

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"Where the law is uncertain there is no law."

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"Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills."

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

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"Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich."

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"Possession is nine tenths of the law."

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"A good lawyer is a bad neighbor."

Proverb, French on law and lawyers   

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

Proverb, Spanish on law and lawyers
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"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."

Puzo, Mario on law and lawyers   

"Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty."

Robert, Henry M. on law and lawyers   

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"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws."

Roosevelt, Theodore on law and lawyers   

"Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear."

Sade, Marquis De on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"The law often permits what honor prohibits."

Saurin, Bernard Joseph on law and lawyers   

"Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse."

Sayers, Dorothy L. on law and lawyers   

"Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish."

Saying on law and lawyers   

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."

Scott, Sir Walter on law and lawyers   

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

Shakespeare, William on law and lawyers
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"Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first."

Shaw, George Bernard on law and lawyers   

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"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 on law and lawyers   

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

Spencer, Herbert on law and lawyers   

"Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked."

Sprecht, Robert D. on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt."

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady on law and lawyers   

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

Stirner, Max on law and lawyers
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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 on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted."

Syrus, Publilius on law and lawyers   

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on law and lawyers   

"The more corrupt the state, the more laws."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on law and lawyers
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"Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order."

Talmud, The on law and lawyers   

"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect."

Thompson, Hunter S. on law and lawyers   

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

Thoreau, Henry David on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."

Thoreau, Henry David on law and lawyers