Civilized Quote by Earl Warren Download Open image “In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.” — Earl Warren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilized Ethics Law Life Philosophy Sea
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it. — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“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 respected to a cer- tain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share
“If we are in a position to affect the happiness or suffering of others, we have ethical responsibilities toward them2—and many of these responsibilities… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share
Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society. — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional…All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home — Joseph Anderson Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
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