Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 249 Morals quotesMorals QuotesMorals Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.~ Frederic Bastiat The country's first drug ban explicitly targeted the opium of "the heathen Chinee." Cocaine was first banned in the south to prevent an uprising of hopped-up "cocainized Negroes.~ Dan Baum Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a) they know what they are doing, (b) they consent to it, and (c) no one -- at least no one other than the participants -- is harmed by it.~ Hugo Adam Bedau Republicans don't know how to defend morally an individual's right to achieve wealth and to keep it, and that is why they fail. ... It's part and parcel with their ambivalence over the individualist heritage of the nation. ... One of the things that people have to understand is that the American Revolution was truly an epic revolution in the way individuals were perceived in relation to the rest of the society. Throughout history individuals had always been cogs in some machine; they'd always been something to be sacrificed for the king, the tribe, the gang, the chieftain, the society around them, the race, whatever, and the real revolution, in America especially, was a moral revolution. It was a moral revolution in that ... suddenly, with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the individual, his life, his well-being, his property, his happiness became central to our values, and that is what really made America unique. People came here from all over the world to try to escape the kind of oppression they had and experienced in the past. They came here for freedom; they came here for self-expression and self-realization, and America offered them that kind of a place.~ Robert Bidinotto Let us revise our views and work from the premise that all laws should be for the welfare of society as a whole and not directed at the punishment of sins.~ John Biggs Jr. A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.~ William Blake I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.~ Napoleon Bonaparte [A] society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.~ Robert Bork Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.~ Elias Boudinot Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.~ Robert Briffault The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.~ Heywood Hale Broun Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.~ Lenny Bruce All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.~ Buddha Marihuana is a more dangerous drug than heroin or cocaine. I am surprised to learn that certain police officers have been inclined to minimize the effects of the use of marihuana. They would, I am sure, be convinced that the drug is adhering to its Old World traditions of murder, assault, rape, physical demoralization, and mental breakdown. A study of the effects of marihuana shows clearly that it is a dangerous drug, and Bureau records prove that its use is associated with insanity and crime.~ Bulletin of the FBI If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.~ Edmund Burke There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.~ Edmund Burke There should be some schools called deformatories to which people are sent if they are too good to be practical.~ Samuel Butler When we regard a man as morally responsible for an act, we regard him as a legitimate object of moral praise or blame in respect of it. But it seems plain that a man cannot be a legitimate object of moral praise or blame for an act unless in willing the act he is in some important sense a ‘free’ agent. Evidently free will in some sense, therefore, is a precondition of moral responsibility.~ C. Arthur Campbell Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print