Law Quote by Immanuel Kant Download Open image ““act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a general law of nature.”” — Immanuel Kant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Law Law of nature Nature
“...Act upon a maxim which, at the same time, involves its own universal validity for every rational being.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. —IMMANUEL KANT, Fundamental… — Judith Boss Copy Share Image
“A man reduced to despair by a series of misfortunes feels wearied of life, but is still so far in possession of his reason… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Natural law is superior as it allows for the pursuit of virtue genuinely initiated from within and themselves.” — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Do not look around to discover other people's ruling principles, but look straight to this, to what nature leads you, both the universal nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A Government is not free to do as it pleases…. The law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“There are no laws, only habits of existence so deep that to break them would require unmaking the world that contains them.” — PIERRE LAGRENAT Copy Share Image
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image