Customs Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Customs Law Null Persons Strength Strong Strong person
A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it. — Massad Ayoob 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
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church,… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
One of the Canadian customs guards got suspicious and said 'Haven't you been coming and going across the border a lot lately?' I finally… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
