Character Quote by Ben Elton Download Open image “I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.” — Ben Elton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Difficult I think Morality Think Thinking
If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The common mantra of today is that ‘we can’t legislate morality,’ though, of course, every law is a statement of what that nation’s people… — John Price Copy Share Image
Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line. — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable. — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.” — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves” — ben elton Copy Share Image
We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“We've just lost our way, that's all. But what if you could give us a chance to do better? Just one chance? One single… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“New York will always seem more real than anything Britain has to offer. It is strange that, although the majority of British people have… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
