Quotations on advocacy
Thirty excerpts from speeches, pleadings and memoirs. Excerpts are translated where needed.
History of the legal professionEgypt
«Advocacy is the act of warding off harm.»
«Advocacy, in a word, is persuasion.»
«The art of delivery is indispensable.»
«In the course of legal practice you learn every day, and it is your duty to do so.»
«Only those who approach advocacy with passion will succeed in it.»
«The spoken word has value only when it is committed to a cause and pursues an end consistent with right and justice.»
«A lawyer cannot fulfil that calling without distinction in talent and ability.»
«An advocate’s qualities include presenting the defence in a fitting form.»
«Because relying on memory in oral argument is unsafe.»
«Advocacy is character and creativity.»
Arab world
«The legislator should not, in safeguarding justice, go to excess in onerous formalities and restrictions.»
«A perfect harmony between my profession, which is to plead and defend, and being a woman.»
«Dignity. Conscience. Independence. Humanity.»
«A lawyer must be truthful and honest. That is my message to young lawyers.»
«The mission of judges, lawyers and jurists has been to strengthen judicial independence, the rule of law and the independence of the legal profession.»
«Advocacy is a calling before it is a profession, and only a person of true stature can carry the weight of that calling.»
«There is no advocate without patience.»
International
«Resolve to be honest at all events.»
«Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.»
«Never let your correspondence fall behind.»
«The lawyer’s avenue to the public.»
«Facts are stubborn things.»
«It’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.»
«The object of our enquiry is simply that of truth.»
«I realized that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder.»
«My speech was the outcome rather of the exigencies of the moment, than of my deliberate judgement.»
«I am pleading for life, understanding, charity and kindness.»
«I am pleading that we overcome cruelty with kindness and hatred with love.»
«We reject this justice of elimination, anxiety and death, decided with its margin of chance.»
«Why do we share the penalty when we did not share the guilt?»