Law Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Law Unwritten Written
Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will… — Anacharsis Copy Share Image
There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are so many forms, I believe people are bright enough to make their own laws, more subtle ones than we've had before. — Joan Littlewood Copy Share Image
“Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger 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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