Good man Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them…

— Edmund Spenser

Manners are stronger than laws

— Thomas Carlyle

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends....

— George Bernard Shaw

For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

— Louis D. Brandeis

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“i buoni e i cattivi risultati delle nostre parole e delle nostre azioni si vanno distribuendo, presumibilmente in modo alquanto uniforme ed equilibrato, in…

— Jose Saramago

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach…

— Robert H. Jackson

“Politeness must be cultivated, for the promptings of nature are eminently selfish, and courtesy and good-breeding are only attainable by effort and discipline. But…

— Arthur Martine