Quote by Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly

Summary

This quote suggests that truly virtuous individuals have an inherent sense of responsibility and do not require external rules or regulations to act ethically. On the other hand, individuals with malicious intentions will always find loopholes and ways to evade the laws designed to constrain their actions. In essence, the quote highlights the limitations of laws in curbing the behavior of morally corrupt individuals and emphasizes the importance of personal integrity and intrinsic moral compass in guiding one's actions.

By Plato

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a hu

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Failure

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved f

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence,

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

Dianne Feinstein

Courage

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pa

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Inspirational

Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when

Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they're not intimidated by them. If I'm doing 'Boy Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.

Home

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Apathy

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

Sympathy

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making ple

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

Money

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.

Death Age Health Orwell

The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-suffi

The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Life Nature Self

Whither thou goest...

Whither thou goest...

Love

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intel

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

John Morley, Life of Gladstone,

Intelligence