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In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist. — Michel Templet

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

Masonry is first and foremost an education society, one which TEACHES moral and ethics - a way of life. Secondly, — Cliff Porter

Selfishness is not a virtue. Altruism is not a moral weakness. Taxation is the price we pay for civilization. — Darryl Cunningham

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne. — William M. Evarts

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved — Tibor R. Machan

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political and moral beliefs that control our actions. — Emile Durkheim

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. — Charles Caleb Colton

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them. — Henry Rollins

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. — Thomas Jefferson

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles. — Sissela Bok

An irrational society is a society of moral cowards-
of men paralyzed by the loss of moral standards , principles, and goals — Ayn Rand

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies. — Joe Biden

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] — John F. Kennedy

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. — Huston Smith

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. — Will Durant

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral. — Mahatma Gandhi

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor. — Andrew Young

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. — Ayn Rand

We wanted a labour force, but human beings came. — Terry Hayes

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death. — Alfred North Whitehead

Eating is not a crime. It's not a moral issue. It's normal. It's enjoyable. It just is. — Carrie Arnold

Only through the empowerment of society to be the very best it can be in a moral way, might we acheive peace through achievement. — Carl T. Johnson

God has given everything to fulfill our need,
But he has nothing to satisfy our greed. — MIKAIL ALI

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that. — Frans De Waal

The Christian is to take his place in society with moral courage to stand up for that which is right, just, and honorable. — Billy Graham

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips. — Dan Ariely

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? — Florence Nightingale

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage. — Mary Baker Eddy

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral. — John Hurt

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart. — Dalai Lama

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over. — Veronica Roth

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. — Emile Durkheim

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats. — Kenzaburo Oe

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks

Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. — Tipper Gore

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status. — Andrew Vachss

A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. — Randy Wayne White

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive. — Oren Lyons

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out. — Robert A. Heinlein

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified. — Ron Paul

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. — Edwin Louis Cole

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are. — J. William Fulbright

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut. — Veronica Roth

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them. — Michel De Montaigne