Character Quote by Emile Durkheim

Laws without morals are in vain.

— Benjamin Franklin

What can laws do without morals?

— Benjamin Franklin

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“You can be moral without following the law, and you can be immoral while following the law.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

— William Blackstone

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

— George Edward Moore

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.

— Wendell Phillips

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You…

— Edgar Mitchell

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not…

— David Hume

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is…

— Ronald Reagan