Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [161-180] of 249 Morals quotesMorals QuotesMorals Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.~ Margaret Mead Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.~ Menander Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel.~ H. L. Mencken Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.~ H. L. Mencken May God prevent us from becoming 'right-thinking men' -- that is to say, men who agree perfectly with their own police.~ Thomas Merton That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.~ John Stuart Mill Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.~ Henry Miller None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.~ John Milton Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.~ John Milton We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.~ Richard Mitchell Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.~ Molière Zealotry of either kind -- the puritan's need to regiment others or the victim's passion for blaming everyone except himself -- tends to produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims: they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer, defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of betterment.~ Lance Morrow The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance -- a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms -- A Nation of Finger Pointers.~ Lance Morrow As a first-time drug law offender, I was sentenced to 27 non-parolable years in prison. The amount of time was based on liquid waste found in the garage and unprocessed chemicals. There were no drugs.~ David A. Nichols Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.~ Friedrich Nietzsche In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.~ Friedrich Nietzsche Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.~ Richard M. Nixon Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.~ Northwest Ordinance, Article III, 1787 There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.~ P. J. O'Rourke There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.~ P. J. O'Rourke Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print