Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [181-200] of 249 Morals quotesMorals QuotesMorals Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert, and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.~ P. J. O'Rourke If it would be wrong for the government to adopt an official religion, then, for the same reasons, it would be wrong for the government to adopt official education policies. The moral case for freedom of religion stands or falls with that for freedom of education. A society that champions freedom of religion but at the same time countenances state regulation of education has a great deal of explaining to do.~ James R. Otteson Petty laws breed great crimes.~ Ouida Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor. (I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.)~ Ovid Character is much easier kept than recovered.~ Thomas Paine When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.~ Thomas Paine Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.~ Thomas Paine Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.~ Isabel Paterson The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.~ Dr. Ron Paul To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.~ William Penn Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.~ William Penn Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.~ Philo of Alexandria Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.~ Plato Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.~ Plato The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.~ John Rawls To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.~ Theodore Roosevelt To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.~ Theodore Roosevelt No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.~ Theodore Roosevelt Lottery tickets are the only consumer products actively promoted and sold by the state. The state does not sell toothpaste, or even promote brushing your teeth. But it tells people they should gamble. The main marketing concern is how to attract new players, who otherwise wouldn't gamble.~ I. Nelson Rose It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.~ Murray N. Rothbard Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print