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Law Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
- I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is…
- There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment…
- The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
- Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see…
- It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
- The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and…
- The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
- Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.
- Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain…
- Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and…
- I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the…
- I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious…
- Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and…
- Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons…
- The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
- There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times…
More Law Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson