Legislated Morality Quotes

#1. Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon biblical foundations, that morality cannot be legislated, but what they offer is not only legislated morality, but salvation by law.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#2. In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#4. Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

David Graeber

#5. Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.

Samuel Chadwick

#6. War consisteth not in battle only,or the act of fighting;but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known

Thomas Hobbes

#7. I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

Ron Perlman

#8. Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

Steven Pinker

#9. There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.

Harold Perrineau

#11. We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Eric Hoffer

#12. Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. There's something eternal about love and once it starts, it doesn't stop. There is no controlling it - love does what it wants when it wants.

H.M. Ward

#14. Universe is the Sun watching its own self.

Dejan Stojanovic

#15. Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are
sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.

T. B. Joshua

#16. So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al Oerter