Montesquieu
View AuthorDemocracy must guard against two excesses: the spirit of inequality, which leads to aristocracy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads to despotism.
Montesquieu
View AuthorAn injustice done to the individual is a threat to the entire society.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThe law should be like death, which exempts no one.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThe useless laws weaken the necessary ones.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThere is no worse tyranny than that which is exercised in the shadow of the laws and under the heat of justice.
Montesquieu
View AuthorWhen societies are born, the leaders of a State are the ones who give it its special character. Later, this special character is what shapes the heads of state.
Montesquieu
View AuthorWhen one seeks so much the way to become feared, one always finds first the way to become hated.
Montesquieu
View AuthorMore states have perished due to the depravity of customs than from the violation of laws.
Montesquieu
View AuthorWhen a government lasts a long time, it decomposes slowly and imperceptibly.
Thomas Moore
View AuthorI would defend the law, even if it were just to protect myself from myself.
Alberto Moravia
View AuthorInterestingly, voters do not feel responsible for the failures of the government they have voted for.
Christopher Morley
View AuthorIn politics, you always have to choose between two evils.