Character Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

— Edwin Markham

“Moral conduct,or duty,is defined as the obligation to select that action which will achieve more good than any alternative action....”

— Anonymous

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

— Milton Friedman

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

— Immanuel Kant

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

— Albert Einstein

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to…

— James Anthony Froude

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is…

— Nathaniel Branden

“To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to act. Rather,…

— Steven M. Cahn

“Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.”

— Ashim Shanker