Laws Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Laws Men
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office. — Pittacus of Mytilene Copy Share Image
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them. — Demonax 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 we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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 of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House,… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
Strict laws should be made and implemented against people who leak pirated versions of films online. This is completely anti-national. — Raza Murad Copy Share Image
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they… — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
Clearly if the United States' relationship with Cuba changed, which would require a regime change inside Cuba, if Cuba moved towards a more democratic… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
I don't follow all the 48 laws. Like, I've never crushed anyone totally. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
