Lawyer Quotes And Sayings

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“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour … If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
– Charlotte Bronte

“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
– Criss Jami

“…remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
– Abigail Adams

“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.”
– Plato

“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
– Howard Zinn

“Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.”
– Joe Abercrombie

“The Law is hard, but it is the Law.”
– Cassandra Clare

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
– Winston Churchill

“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
– Ayn Rand

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
– Honore de Balzac

“War.” Gorgon spits the word. “That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.”
– Libba Bray

“And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.”
– George Carlin

“When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]”
– Anne Bishop

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
– jules Verne

“There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
– Charlotte Bronte

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
– Jonathan Swift

“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use… Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.”
– Jimmy Carter

“Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.”
– Ellen Degeneres

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
– Naomi Wolf

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
– Tacitus

“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
– Horace Greeley

“Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don’t be upset when others decide you’re an asshole.”
– Jim C. Hines

“The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you’ve created your world, with actions of your body, speech and mind. When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.”
– Keanu Reeves

“A unjust law, is no law at all.”
– Martin Luther

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”
– Aristotle

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