Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Humanity, Patriotism

• Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Prejudice, Reason, Disposition

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.294, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

• Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Nature, Rewards, Proportion

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.279, Library of Alexandria

• Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Secret, Gunpowder

• I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Moderation, Mankind, Extremes

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXII: Of Laws in Relation to the Use of Money, Ch. 22: The Same Subject continued, 1748.

• The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Wickedness, Mankind

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.125, Library of Alexandria

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