I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Justice & Law
category

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. – Grover Whalen

Category:
Justice & Law

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. – Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954

Category:
Justice & Law

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. – Henry Ford

Category:
Justice & Law

Justice is incidental to law and order. – John Edgar Hoover

Category:
Justice & Law

Random Quotes

Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. – Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic

Category:
History

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. – Otto Dix

Category:
Art

Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. – Franklin Pierce Adams

Category:
Age

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things arent good. Drinkings not good. Some would say milks not good. – Bob Dole

Category:
Smoking