Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
Source: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
“The law is reason unaffected by desire.”
Book III, 1287a.32
Politics
Variant: The Law is reason free from passion.
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Edward Coke (1552–1634) English lawyer and judge
The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), Third Institute. Compare: "Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason", Sir John Powell, Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. Rep. p. 911.
Institutes of the Laws of England
Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863–1943) Indian Muslim scholar
Ashraf Ali Thānwī, Hayātul Muslimeen , p.44
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice
in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (15 October 1912), as cited in A Treasury of Jewish Quotations, ed. Joseph L. Baron, Rowman & Littlefield (1996), p. 269 : ISBN 1568219482
Extra-judicial writings
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
X. Concerning Virtue and Vice.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: The doctrine of virtue and vice depends on that of the soul. When the irrational soul enters into the body and immediately produces fight and desire, the rational soul, put in authority over all these, makes the soul tripartite, composed of reason, fight, and desire. Virtue in the region of reason is wisdom, in the region of fight is courage, in the region of desire is temperance; the virtue of the whole soul is righteousness. It is for reason to judge what is right, for fight in obedience to reason to despise things that appear terrible, for desire to pursue not the apparently desirable, but, that which is with reason desirable. When these things are so, we have a righteous life; for righteousness in matters of property is but a small part of virtue. And thus we shall find all four virtues in properly trained men, but among the untrained one may be brave and unjust, another temperate and stupid, another prudent and unprincipled. Indeed, these qualities should not be called virtues when they are devoid of reason and imperfect and found in irrational beings. Vice should be regarded as consisting of the opposite elements. In reason it is folly, in fight, cowardice, in desire, intemperance, in the whole soul, unrighteousness.
The virtues are produced by the right social organization and by good rearing and education, the vices by the opposite.
“Let your desires be governed by reason.”
Appetitus rationi pareat.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Kenneth N. Waltz book Man, the State, and War
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter VI, The Third Image, p. 159
“Sufficiently rich to satisfy all my desires and the reasonable desires of all those about me.”
David Ricardo (1772–1823) British political economist, broker and politician
Letter to James Mill, 1815, quoted in Newschool biography http://homepage.newschool.edu/het//profiles/ricardo.htm
“Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.”
John Powell (1645–1713) American Jesuit priest
Coggs vs. Bernard, Lord Raymond, 911, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason", Edward Coke, First Institute.
“It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Freeman (1948), p. 165
Variant: It is hard to fight with desire; but to overcome it is the mark of a rational man.