Law Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Law Lawyer Men Refuse Wells
Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
“Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them — Demonax The Cynic Copy Share Image
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself. — William Powell 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
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