I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Baron De MontesquieuRead
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes that laws are derived from human reason and should reflect rationality applicable to society.
Baron De Montesquieu articulates the idea that laws should be grounded in human reason, serving as a framework for governance that applies universally to all people. He suggests that specific political and civil laws in each nation are simply manifestations of this broader rational principle, indicating that the essence of law is rooted in human understanding and logic rather than arbitrary authority.
Themes
LawHuman ReasonGovernancePhilosophyJustice
In practice
Example use cases
In a courtroom, a lawyer might use this quote to emphasize the importance of rational reasoning in legal arguments.
More from Baron De Montesquieu
All quotes →To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Baron De MontesquieuRead
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
Baron De MontesquieuRead
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Baron De MontesquieuRead
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
Baron De MontesquieuRead
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
Baron De MontesquieuRead
Similar quotes
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
Swami VivekanandaRead
One day/_x000D_ One day I waited for myself/_x000D_ I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came/_x000D_ So I could know just who I am/_x000D_ I who know others.
Guillaume ApollinaireRead
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.
Thomas PaineRead
Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
H. P. LovecraftRead
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
Christopher HitchensRead
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.
George OrwellRead