Direct Quote by Baron de Montesquieu Download Open image “Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.” — Baron de Montesquieu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Direct Giving Humans Law Made Ought
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse. — Tom Price Copy Share Image
“The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
And those who respond to their Lord and keep up prayer, and their rule is to take counsel among themselves, and who spend out… — Quran Copy Share Image
All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. — Stanley Smith Stevens Copy Share Image
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There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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