Our law and our morality contradict one another.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for…

— Frederic Bastiat

“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them…

— Frédéric Bastiat

No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected…

— Frederic Bastiat

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to…

— Ayn Rand

There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to…

— Immanuel Kant

“When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense,…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“What then is the relation of law to morality? Law cannot prescribe morality, it can prescribe only external actions and therefore it should prescribe…

— Anonymous

“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is to make…

— Bastiat, Frederick

“Because the democratic process operates apart from the Church, it possesses no corrective against corrupted human nature beyond its own equally corrupt judiciary, which…

— Solange Hertz

“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the laws are…

— Frédéric Bastiat

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

— Ayn Rand

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob

— Ayn Rand

Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of…

— Carl Sagan

“No need to be intimidated, tesoro, but do be careful." "See, those two statements seem like they contradict each other to me, Gio.”

— elizabeth hunter