Character Quote by Henry Parry Liddon

All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— George Edward Moore

Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data of the…

— Immanuel Kant

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

— Lord Acton

There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the…

— Thomas Hobbes

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

— Joseph Butler

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

— David Gergen

“True law necessarily is rooted in ethical assumptions or norms; and those ethical principles are derived, in the beginning at least, from religious convictions.…

— Russell Kirk

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others,…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

— Russell Kirk