L Quotes
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“Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.”
Source: The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed
“Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.”
“Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.”
“Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them ourselves: as equals. If we are going to stop the spread of HIV in our lifetime, then that is the change we need to spread.”
“Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.”
“Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.”
“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”
“Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.”
“Laws were made by men, and men made mistakes.”
Source: 47 Ronin
“Laws were made to establish a gradation of ranks; but it was soon found that the soil of America was opposed to a territorial aristocracy. To bring that refractory land into cultivation, the constant and interested exertions of the owner himself were necessary; and when the ground was prepared, its produce was found to be insufficient to enrich a proprietor and a farmer at the same time. The land was then naturally broken up into small portions, which the proprietor cultivated for himself. Land is the basis of an aristocracy, which clings to the soil that supports it; for it is not by privileges alone, nor by birth, but by landed property handed down from generation to generation, that an aristocracy is constituted. A nation may present immense fortunes and extreme wretchedness; but unless those fortunes are territorial, there is no true aristocracy, but simply the class of the rich and that of the poor.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt”
Source: The Annals & The Histories
“Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.”
“Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].”
“Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law.”
“Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.”
“Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.”
“Laws without enforced consequences are merely suggestions.”
“Laws without morals are in vain.”
“Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.”
“Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.”
“Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.”
“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”
“Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.”
“Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.”
Source: Past and Present
“Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.”
“Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.”
“Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.”
“Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles.”
“Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.”
“Lawsuits hold these bastards accountable and make the world safer. Of course, you disagree; everyone you represent is innocent. Is that what you’re suggesting?”
Source: Betrayal In Black
“Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.”
“Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.”
“Lawyer even sounds like liar.”
Source: Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large
“Lawyer's credo: Anyone can sue anyone for anything.”
Source: 5th Horseman
“LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.”
“Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.”
“Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.”
“Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.”
“Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.”
“Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.”
Source: The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence
“Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.”
“Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.”
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
“Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.”
“Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case.”
Source: Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing
“Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.”