Moral Law Quotes
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Moral Law Quotes & Sayings
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No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
— Rocco Buttiglione
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
— Emile Durkheim
Ordinary human laws are the means however imperfect
by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. — Russell Kirk
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.
— Pope Paul VI
![Moral Law Quotes By John Quincy Adams: The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/moral-law-quotes-by-john-quincy-adams-344482.jpg "Moral Law Quotes By John Quincy Adams: The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments]")
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
— John Quincy Adams
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
— Stephen Leacock
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Laws that oppress people have no moral authority
— Richard Stallman
Just as rust produced by iron corrodes iron, so is the violator of moral law destroyed by his own wrong action.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.
— Damian Wampler
Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.
— Donald J. Trump
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.
— Noah Webster
The theory that if wages go up, employment goes down isn't a physical law like F=MA. It's a moral law, like 'Bedtime is 9:00 P.M.'
— Nick Hanauer
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
— C.S. Lewis
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.
— Ravi Zacharias
If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don't get a moral law unless there's a moral law giver.
— Frank Turek
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
— William Blackstone
What can laws do without morals?
— Benjamin Franklin
Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral
— Dallin H. Oaks
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
— Chaim Weizmann
Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process.
— Ravi Zacharias
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Laws without morals are in vain.
— Benjamin Franklin
Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is impossible to legislate without legislating morality. Try to think of a law that is not based on a moral idea; you won't be able to do it.
— J. Budziszewski
My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.
— Jacques Lacan
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
— Paul Ricoeur
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.
— Scott Klusendorf
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
— Martin Luther
Moral principle is the foundation of law.
— Ronald Dworkin
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.
— E. Stanley Jones
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
— Plato
These are: (1) the Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth; (4) the Commander; (5) method and discipline.
— Sun Tzu
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
— Alan Watts
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
— H.L. Mencken
I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.
— Richard M. Stallman
The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
— Edward Snowden
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.
— Immanuel Kant
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
— Murray Rothbard
We may disagree with the morality of a law, but we cannot deny the moral concern of a law.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
— Frederic Bastiat
![Moral Law Quotes By Larry Christenson: It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/moral-law-quotes-by-larry-christenson-707064.jpg "Moral Law Quotes By Larry Christenson: It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect")
It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.
— Larry Christenson
The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.
— Mark Steyn
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
— Kate Atkinson
National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.
— Herbert Hoover
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
— Woodrow Wilson
It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
— James G. Frazer
![Moral Law Quotes By Frances Power Cobbe: [Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/moral-law-quotes-by-frances-power-cobbe-1203361.jpg "Moral Law Quotes By Frances Power Cobbe: [Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment")
[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.
— Frances Power Cobbe
