Law Quote by Rene Descartes Download Open image “A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.” — Rene Descartes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Law
States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and… — Solon Copy Share Image
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the… — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs we call… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it… — Rene Descartes 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
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