Action Quote by George Will

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

— Robert A. Heinlein

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

— John Dewey

Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an…

— Andrew Linzey

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the…

— Aristotle

Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or…

— Maria Montessori

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

— Simon Bolivar

I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society…

— John Dewey

States are not moral agents.

— Noam Chomsky

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it…

— John Stuart Mill

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli