Admitted Quote by Frederick Pollock

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

— Kate Atkinson

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill,…

— William Dunbar

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

— Roger Williams

“As to the right of men to act anywhere according to their pleasure, without any moral tie, no such right exists. Men are never…

— Edmund Burke

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections,…

— Nathanael Emmons

When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish…

— Confucius

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether…

— Roger Williams

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing…

— Immanuel Kant

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when…

— George Bernard Shaw

Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct? Is the only right standard for everyone, the probable action of…

— Charles Sheldon