All things Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill,…

— William Dunbar

The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength,…

— Anthony Trollope

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't…

— Orson Scott Card

It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become…

— Plato

Men will not understand … that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in…

— Immanuel Kant

“When you speak of the favour of the gods, we may as fairly hope for that as yourselves; neither our pretensions nor our conduct…

— Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War Melian Dialogue

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by…

— Edmund Burke

"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah, by serving…

— Swami Vivekananda

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without…

— Aristotle

No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect…

— William Godwin

To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau