Montesquieu idézet
Montesquieu
Születési dátum: 18. január 1689
Halál dátuma: 10. február 1755
Más nevek: Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Шарль Луи де Монтескьё
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Idézetek Montesquieu
„There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude…we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.“
No. 104. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
„The laws of Rome had wisely divided public power among a large number of magistracies, which supported, checked and tempered each other. Since they all had only limited power, every citizen was qualified for them, and the people — seeing many persons pass before them one after the other — did not grow accustomed to any in particular. But in these times the system of the republic changed. Through the people the most powerful men gave themselves extraordinary commissions — which destroyed the authority of the people and magistrates, and placed all great matters in the hands of one man, or a few.“
— Montesquieu, könyv Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline
Forrás: Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence/11 - Wikisource, fr.wikisource.org, fr, 2018-07-07 https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Consid%C3%A9rations_sur_les_causes_de_la_grandeur_des_Romains_et_de_leur_d%C3%A9cadence/11,
Forrás: Montesquieu, Causes of the Greatness of the Romans, 2017-11-09, 2018-07-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20171109014358/http://www.constitution.org/cm/ccgrd_l.htm,
Forrás: Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline (1876), Chapter XI.
„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. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man who has power is inclined to abuse it; he goes until he finds limits. Is it not strange, though true, to say that virtue itself has need of limits?.
To prevent this abuse, it is necessary that, by the arrangement of things, power shall stop power. A government may be so constituted, as no man shall be compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from things which the law permits.“
— Montesquieu, könyv The Spirit of the Laws
Book XI, Chapter 4.
The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
„People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.“
No. 46. (Usbek writing to Rhedi)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
„Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.“
No. 76. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
