#2,979

As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive law.
The individual has no more rights than the benefit that can be inferred from another’s duty.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 476

#2,949

Where the law is not customary law, it is easily turned into a mere political weapon.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 471

#2,924

The majority of properly modern customs would be crimes in an authentically civilized society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,836

Human warmth in a society diminishes by the same measure that its legislation is perfected.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454

#2,805

A healthily constituted state is one where innumerable obstacles restrict and impede the freedom of the legislator.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#2,761

One can only speak of the sovereignty of the law where the legislator’s function is reduced to consulting the consensus of custom in the light of ethics.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443

#2,759

Neither a declaration of human rights, nor the proclamation of a constitution, nor an appeal to natural law, protects against the arbitrary power of the state.
The only barrier to despotism is customary law.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443

#2,660

When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,616

Law is the easiest method of exercising tyranny.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 423

#2,548

An excess of laws emasculates.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 409

#2,454

The absence of legal hierarchies facilitates the rise of the less scrupulous.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,359

Where the customs and the laws permit everyone to aspire to everything, everyone lives a frustrated life, no matter what position he comes to occupy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 382

#2,272

Without canon law the Church would not have had her admirable institutional presence in history.
But the vices of Catholic theology stem from its propensity to treat theological problems with the mentality of a canon lawyer.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 369

#1,724

The spirit is fallible submission to norms, not infallible subjection to laws.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286

#1,507

Moderate democrats promulgate the laws with which radical democrats exterminate them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 253

#1,447

Man today oscillates between the sterile rigidity of the law and the vulgar disorder of instinct.
He knows nothing of discipline, courtesy, good taste.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 245

#1,440

Democratic tribunals do not make the guilty tremble, but rather the accused.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 243

#1,375

Legal freedom of expression has grown alongside the sociological enslavement of thought.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 235

#1,337

The rapid evolution of a society destroys its customs.
And imposes on the individual, in place of the silent education of traditions, the reins and the whip of laws.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,330

The plethora of laws is a sign that nobody knows anymore how to command intelligently.
Or that nobody knows anymore how to obey freely.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229