Quote

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Baron de Montesquieu

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Baron de Montesquieu
Reason
Laws
Nation
Passion
Law
Nations
Principals
Powerful
Obeys
Fear
Principal
Power
Lawyer

More quotes by Baron de Montesquieu

Image
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
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 Montesquieu
Image
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
Baron de Montesquieu