 | Michel de Montaigne - 1859 - 524 pages
...employed, that they may not hinder my liberty of going and coming. Now the laws keep up tbeir credit, not because they are just, but because they are laws ; that is the what lt TO that mystic foundation of their authority ; they have Jj'm^™etati^"''tshe no other of... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1927 - 632 pages
...exercised to prevent their curtailing my freedom of coming and going. Now the laws maintain their credit not because they are just but because they are laws. That is the mystic foundation of their authority, and they have no other. And that is, indeed, their advantage.... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - Literary Collections - 1965 - 914 pages
...is employed to keep them from interrupting my freedom of coming and going. Now laws remain in credit not because they are just, but because they are laws. That is the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other. cAnd that is a good thing for them. They... | |
 | George Caspar Homans - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 282 pages
...Montaigne's refusal to indulge in cant and equate law with justice: "Now the laws maintain their credit not because they are just but because they are laws. That is the mystic foundation of their authority, and they have no other. And that is, indeed, their advantage.... | |
 | James Henderson Burns, Mark Goldie - History - 1991 - 818 pages
...for traditional modes of justifying particular regimes. The laws are maintained in credit', he wrote, 'not because they are just but because they are laws. That is the mystical foundation of their authority; they ha ve no other' (1580—8, Book 3, ch. 13). A remarkable (not to... | |
 | Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, David Gray Carlson - Law - 1992 - 428 pages
...sont justes, ne leur obeit pas justement par ou il doibt" ("And so laws keep up their good standing, not because they are just, but because they are laws: that is the mystical foundation of their authority, they have no other. . . . Anyone who obeys them because they are just... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - Philosophy - 1994 - 484 pages
...during these civil wars of ours is applied to stop laws from interfering with my freedom to come and go. Now laws remain respected not because they are just...mystical basis of their authority. They have no other. [C] It serves them well, too. Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in... | |
 | Maryanne Cline Horowitz - Education - 1998 - 404 pages
...Political Thought, gives as radical esamples Montaigne's statement that "the laws are maintained in credit not because they are just but because they are laws. That is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have not other" (Essais 3.13) and Charron's that "lawes and customs... | |
 | Todd Dufresne - Psychology - 1997 - 260 pages
...appendix to the 1972 edition of Histoire de la folie. 9. "And so laws keep up their good standing, not because they are just, but because they are laws: that is the mystical foundation of their authority, they have no other. . . . Anyone who obeys them because they are just... | |
 | Jacques Derrida - Psychology - 1998 - 148 pages
...of Raymond Roussel (New York: Doubleday, 1986), p. 3. 14. "And so laws keep up their good standing, not because they are just, but because they are laws: that is the mystical foundation of their authority, they have no other. . . . Anyone who obeys them because they are just... | |
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Now laws remain in credit not because they are just, but because they are laws. That is the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other. 
