Below is a collection of aphorisms about the rule of law that I have compiled for your reference. I hope you like it!
1. Freedom is not unlimited freedom, freedom is a kind of ability. The power to do anything permitted by law. ? Montesquieu
2. Freedom is the right to do everything permitted by law. ?Montesquieu
3. What dominates and governs everything is the power of law in a monarchy. In an autocratic government, it is the iron fist of the monarch that is always held high, but in a country of the people, it is also the power of law. There is a pivot to push, and that is virtue. ?Montesquieu
4. Law is the crystallization of all human wisdom and intelligence, including all social thoughts and morals. ? Plato
5. There is no absolute equality and no absolute power. Human beings are similar in nature, but unequal in terms of law, and unequal in politics, but different from each other. ?Balzac
6. The law that people talk about is wealth. ?爱兴生
7. If the law is a command in a specific period of a specific country, then if we examine it in the long river of human history, the law of a society governed by law is an eternal one. Rational dialogue process. It is a kind of "dialogue" (discourse), which means that the law is constantly generated, changed and developed in the confrontation and debate of various different opinions and interests; it is a kind of "rational" (retional) dialogue, which is It means that this kind of dialogue is essentially a peaceful rather than violent reasoning process. ?Zhang Qianfan
8. Lawyers should not advocate too drastic changes, because drastic changes will result in the further loss of social order. Therefore, there is an old proverb in the West: Guns are ringing. Law is silent. There is no way for the law to survive when the guns are firing. So we don’t want this society to change too drastically. ?He Weifang
9. As long as it does not violate just laws, everyone has complete freedom to pursue their own interests in their own way. ?Adam Smith
10. A small, fleeting expectation can often arise from a purely natural environment, but a strong and lasting expectation can only come from the law. ?Bentham
The protection of the law is more powerful than the protection of individuals.
11. When the law is effective, the people will prosper.
12. It is easy to create a law but difficult to implement it.
13. Uncertainty is criticized in the law, and extreme certainty undermines certainty.
14. The interpretation of law has legal effect.
15. The unanimous opinions of jurists have the power of habit.
16. When there is no ambiguity in the terms, the intention of the terms shall not be allowed to be explored.
17. Statutory laws should be strictly interpreted.
18. Custom is the best interpreter of law.
19. Without law, there is no crime, and without law, there is no punishment. (It is not a crime if it is not expressly stipulated in the law)
20. The implementation of illegal acts is either based on premeditation, impulse, or accident.
21. Trial should not be based on precedent, but should be based on law.
22. If there is no law announced in advance, there will be no punishment.
23. Brevity is the friend of the law, while extreme precision is condemned in law.
24. The police are servants of the court.
25. Where the evidence is produced, the case is lost
26. Delayed justice is injustice.
27. Relief comes before power. Without relief, there is no power.
28. Law is the main force for reform and the primary channel for resolving conflicts.
29. If the expansion of administrative power is an unavoidable fate of modern society, then in order to achieve social balance, on the one hand, politics must fully reflect the will of the people, and on the other hand, it should be the largest in the legal system. Respect individual subjectivity to the maximum extent so that they can compete with excessive administrative power.
30. The object of legal adjustment is behavior, and the so-called social relationship is nothing but the behavioral interaction or interaction between people. Without the interaction between people, there would be no social relationship. Law adjusts social relations by affecting people's behavior.
31. In a well-ordered country, the judicial department should receive people’s trust and support. In this sense, the loss of credibility means the loss of judicial power.
32. Justice, by its very nature, is equality; the less equal conditions are lacking, the harder it is to see what kind of justice there is in terms of equality of punishment.
33. People are different. People cannot understand that everyone is equal before the law as equality means treating everyone equally and everyone is equal.
34. The equality we are entitled to as human beings is environmental equality, not personal equality.
35. Anything that conflicts with the indestructible eternity of nature is invalid and therefore cannot restrain anything.
36. The power of law is limited to prohibiting everyone from harming the rights of others, but does not prohibit it from exercising its own rights.
37. If the judicial power becomes one with the political power, the judge will have the power of the oppressor.
38. As people generally understand, legal behavior is an abstraction of all factual elements in a specific legal order, which is mainly behavior that is not illegal and is not a legal transaction. Such behavior also has legal consequences. This kind of behavior that leads to certain legal consequences according to legal provisions is a legal behavior.
39. Punishment should be only as severe as is absolutely necessary to achieve its objectives. All punishments exceeding this are not only excessive evils, but also create a lot of obstacles that hinder the realization of just goals.
40. There is no punishment without a law announced in advance.
41. Nothing prohibited by law is a citizen’s right.
42. The life of law lies in experience, not in logic.
43. Not only is customary law less flexible than laws and regulations, and it is not only easier to adapt to new conditions without laws and regulations, but on the contrary, it tends to be conservative, conservative and difficult to change.
44. The most powerful restraint on crime is not the severity of the punishment, but the inevitability of the punishment, because even the smallest crime, once it becomes certain, will always make people palpitate.
45. Punishment cannot be abolished in the prosperous age, and it is not upheld in the prosperous age.
46. One unfair referee is more harmful than many unfair actions. Because these unfair actions only dirty the water, while unfair referees destroy the source of the water.
47. Our era is the era of rights. Human rights are the concept of our time and the only political and moral concept that has been universally accepted.
48. Even if the judgment does not accurately determine the truth of what happened in the past, as long as the parties to the dispute are convinced that they have been treated fairly, they will voluntarily accept the court's decision.
49. If there is no court to explain and define its true meaning and practical operation, the law will be a piece of paper.
50. I have discovered that the origin, cause and development of chaos and all fires are related to the corrupt legal system of various societies.
51. Good order is the foundation of everything.
52. Let us maintain fairness, then we will get more freedom.
53. The purpose of law is to create a stable and understandable structure of action in which individuals can carry out their plans and be somewhat aware of the possible consequences.
54. Law originates from people’s instinct of self-defense.
55. Procedure is the watershed between the rule of law and the rule of will.
56. Justice can enhance a nation.
57. Law is the art of justice and kindness.
58. Discuss things with ruthless eyes and look at people with compassionate eyes.
59. The best laws arise from habits.
60. An unfair contract is better than a lengthy lawsuit.
61. The power of the law is limited to prohibiting everyone from harming the rights of others, but does not prohibit him from exercising his own rights.
62. The law uses punishment, prevention, specific relief and substitute relief to protect various interests. In addition, human wisdom has not discovered other possibilities in judicial action.
63. No matter what era, if the differences of opinions arising from the various expositions of theories in courts and classrooms are too great, then the law will lose its power.
64. Legislation to regulate the people will be auspicious, but governance without law will be unlucky.
65. Officials do not have personal relationships, and the law does not leave behind love. There is nothing wrong with anyone, only the law.
66. If the same group of people have the power to make and enforce laws at the same time, this will give great temptation to people's weaknesses, causing them to seize power at every turn to exempt themselves from obeying what they are told. The laws they make, and in making and enforcing them, are laws adapted to their own private interests.
67. Where justice is ignored, where equality as the core of justice is constantly denied in statutory provisions, the law there is not just an "unjust law", but has been completely lost. The nature of law.
68. Law contains the story of a nation’s development over centuries, so it cannot be studied just like the theorems and formulas in a mathematics textbook. In order to know what Dharma is, we must understand its past as well as its future trends.
69. Systematic codification can be the product of a conscious and general redirection of legal life, for example as a result of political innovation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or as a result of various classes and groups hoping to achieve the inherent social unity of a political entity. the result of a compromise between.
70. The life of the law lies in its implementation. There is therefore an urgent need for serious scientific research on how to validate a large number of legislative and judicial interpretations.
71. Free people are named after the word freedom. Freedom is the natural power of every human being to do whatever he wants unless hindered by material force or law.
72. The law must be made clear and easy to understand.
73. In the past, if we wanted to suppress the people's rights, we must first focus on consolidating the people's wisdom; today, if we want to increase the people's rights, we must put the people's wisdom first.
74. Generally speaking, law, when it governs all people on the earth, is human reason; the political regulations and civil regulations of each country should only apply this human reason to individuals. situation.
75. To give up one’s freedom is to give up one’s qualifications as a human being, to give up one’s rights, and even to give up one’s obligations. When a person gives up everything, there can be no compensation for it. Such a surrender is incompatible with human nature and makes one's own will lose all freedom, which is equivalent to making one's behavior lose all moral value.
76. A citizen’s political freedom is a state of peace of mind that makes everyone feel safe. In order to enjoy this freedom, there must be a government in which no one has to fear anyone.
77. The purpose of legal research is prediction, that is, prediction of the impact on the instrumental activities of public power through the courts.
78. In enterprise legislation, the concepts of ownership and industry such as the whole people or collectives, industry or agriculture, do not play much role.
79. The legal system is not the product of jurists, but the product of people’s social life. All legal workers? Judges, prosecutors, lawyers, legislators, and law enforcers play a role in this process. However, in the final analysis, judicial activities are not mainly a theoretical argumentation process, but a professional judgment. In this sense, I would like to say that a national society creates a legal system, while jurists only create theories about the legal system.
80. The fact that law is essentially both material and ideological is related to the fact that law develops from top to bottom from the structure and habits of the entire society, and It moves from the top down from the policies and values ??of the ruling class in society.