• Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

  Harriet Martineau
  British writer, social criticus 1802-1876
  - +

   0

See all quotes by Harriet Martineau

Subjects in these quotes:

1. perpetually
2. observation
3. correction
4. encourage
5. originate

Similar authors

• Anthony Trollope
  British writer 57
• Agatha Christie
  British writer 49
• Augustus William Hare
  British writer 34
• Sir Walter Scott
  British writer and poet 33
• Anita Brookner
  British Writer 28
• Thomas Hardy
  British writer and poet 26
• Anne Brontë
  British writer 26
• Lewis Carroll
  British Writer, Mathematician 24

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. by : Harriet Martineau

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations