Bad example Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

— Friedrich Engels

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

— Edmund Burke

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

— Colin Wilson

“Crime exists because immorality is wicked and morality is weak.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”

— Edward Bond

All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.

— Bret Stephens

Good laws are begot by bad actions

— Robert Burton

For one, as I've written before, the death penalty is plainly unjust. When the number of wrongful convictions and death penalty cases that are…

— S.E. Cupp

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

— Lord Acton

“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