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- “I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.” ― Montesquieu.
- “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University Press (September 29, 1989)”
- “If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
- “Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.” ― Charles-Louis De Secondat Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws.
- To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. Baron de Montesquieu. Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Integrity.
- It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. Baron de Montesquieu. Checks, Should.
- The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. Baron de Montesquieu. Honesty, Integrity, War.
- When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
A collection of quotes by Montesquieu, a French philosopher and author of The Spirit of the Laws. Explore his insights on liberty, power, justice, religion, and more.
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If one only wished to be Sad, this could be horrible for the rest of civilisation; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier tha...
[The Spirit of the Laws] became the nobleman's Bible all over Europe.You say, my dear sir, that they read Montesquieu — I believe not. If they do, they do not understand him. He is often obscure, sometimes misled by system; but, on the whole, a learned, and ingeniou...Place...before your eyes, such a man as Montesquieu. Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye; with a judgment prepared wit...When I recollect what the President Montesquieu has written, I am at a loss to tell, why I should treat of human affairs: But I too am instigated by my reflections, and my sentiments; and I may utt...He had been a great reader, and had commonplaced every thing he read. At length he wished to undertake some work into which he could bring his whole commonplace book in a digested form. He fixed on...In recent times it has been held by many economists that the rate of current saving determined the supply of free capital, that the rate of current investment governed the demand for it, and that t...Montesquieu in The Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyMontesquieu in The Catholic Encyclopedia- “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University Press (September 29, 1989)”
- “Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.” ― Charles-Louis De Secondat Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws.
- “Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found.
- “... when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.” ― Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws.
Famous quotes of Montesquieu. Ever since the invention of gunpowder . . . I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
Each one is supposed to keep the other two in check. There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. Once again, Montesquieu cuts ...
