Famous Quotes

Legal interpreters hope to find answers to the problems of their times in the law.

——Larenz

If the legislator makes three amendments, the entire collection of books will be turned into waste paper.

——Kirchmann

The knowledge of legal truth comes from the education of legislators.

——Hegel

Explaining the beginning of law and its foundation is a scientific work, but it is also an art.

——Savigny

Law is the final result of human wisdom and human experience for the common interests.

——Johnson

The rule of law means that the government cannot impose coercion on individuals except by enforcing well-known rules.

——Hayek

Law without faith will degenerate into dead dogma, and faith without law will degenerate into fanaticism.

——Berman

The highest level of the concept of rule of law is a belief that the basis of all laws should be respect for human value.

——Chen Hongyi

The social status of the legal profession is a symbol of national civilization.

——Feld

It is the duty of the Legislature to spread among the people as much as possible the knowledge of their will.

——Bentham

Among the major civilizations in the world, China is the one farthest away from the rule of law, and even forms a polar opposite contrast with Europe.

——Shiran Shiga

Law tells the story of a country’s development over centuries. It cannot be viewed as just the laws and calculation methods in mathematics textbooks.

——Holmes

The framers of the Constitution gave us a compass, not a blueprint.

——Posner

Law provides protection against arbitrariness, gives people a sense of security and reliability, and protects them from ominous darkness in the future.

——Brunner

Public indifference to rights and justice bodes ill for the law.

——Pound

Under a government governed by the rule of law, what is the motto of a good citizen? That is "strict obedience and free criticism."

——Bentham

The more a law presupposes evil in its recipients, the better it is in itself.

——Radbruch

Whoever makes a law for others should apply the same law to himself.

——Aquinas

If you really want to relieve a country's internal worries, you should rely on good legislation and not rely on chance.

——Aristotle

The constitution is an endless, flowing discourse in which generations of people in a country participate in dialogue.

——Lauren Trapper

The basic principles of law are: be honest, do no harm to others, and give everyone his due.

——Justinian

Law is a practice that is constantly improving. Although it may fail due to its flaws, or even fail at all, it is by no means a ridiculous joke. .

——Dworkin

The focus of legal development is not in legislation, jurisprudence, or judicial decisions, but in society itself.

——Ehrlich

Freedom is a way of life that must have its own authority, discipline, and constraints.

——Lippmann

Sane men live more freely within the general legal system than in unfettered solitude.

—— Spinoza

Liberty is the right to do what is permitted by law.

——Cicero

As it is the law that protects good manners, it is also necessary that there be good manners to uphold the law.

——Machiavelli