Behavior Quote by Dallin H. Oaks

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

— David L. Bazelon

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Everybody has got their own definition of Morality and Religion. We all have modified it as per our convenience. Little alcohol is fine, sometimes…

— Honeya

Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a right intrinsically…

— Pope Francis

The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their…

— Pope Paul VI

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality and…

— Calvin Coolidge

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

— Charley Pride

“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

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be…

— D. Todd Christofferson

“A widespread assumption, which nearly everybody in our society accepts – the non-religious included – is that religious faith is especially vulnerable to offence…

— Richard Dawkins

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what…

— Richard Dawkins

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson