I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Baron De MontesquieuRead
Power should be a check on power.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The idea that power must be regulated by other powers to prevent abuse.
Baron De Montesquieu's quote emphasizes the necessity of a system of checks and balances in governance. It suggests that no single entity should hold absolute power, as doing so could lead to tyranny and oppression. Instead, power should be distributed and regulated to maintain freedom and justice in society.
Themes
PowerChecks And BalancesGovernanceTyrannyJustice
In practice
Example use cases
In a political debate discussing the importance of democratic systems.
More from Baron De Montesquieu
All quotes βLaw 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.
Baron De MontesquieuRead
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
Similar quotes
The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.
David HumeRead
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
Ludwig WittgensteinRead
All will come through, not a single soul (jiva) shall be lost.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajRead
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
John BergerRead
To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?
Charles SpurgeonRead
Magic is the science of the jungle.
Carl JungRead