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Denis Diderot has 133 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual…
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product…
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards…
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The world is the house of the strong.
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
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To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame,…
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If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
— James Callaghan
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Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.…
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Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science,
— Fred Thompson
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Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
— John Y. Campbell
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the…
— Denis Diderot
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It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
— Carrie Nation
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
— Sarah Vowell
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