Someone one the Stumpers list was looking for a quotation a while back.
Since I forwarded the query to law-lib, I thought I'd also forward the
(probable) answer.
Mary Whisner, Head of Reference Telephone: (206) 543-6794
Gallagher Law Library FAX: (206) 685-2165
University of Washington Internet: whisner@u.washington.edu
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 21:58:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Debbie Hatfield <KLIDSH@ukcc.uky.edu>
To: Stumpers-L <STUMPERS-LIST@CRF.CUIS.EDU>
Subject: Quotation
"When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient,
laws are unenforceable."
Pardon me for waiting so long to tally the votes on the above stumper
and my thanks to all who responded. I received many interesting
suggestions. The person who received the most votes was Machiavelli, with
4, followed by one each for Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill,
the Marquis de Sade, the University of Pennsylvania's motto, and the
translation of Tao-te ching by Lao-tse.
The exact quote finally surfaced in a compilation of quotes published in
Stephen R. Covey's program "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People."
The quote is attributed to Emile Durkheim.
*However*, there is a disclaimer which says that many of the quotes were
contributed by program participants and "it is possible that some of the
quotes may be attributed to the wrong author"! I have come to the conclusion
that most of our so-called original thoughts were originally thought by
someone before us. And you can quote me on that!
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