Character Quote by John Adams

Morality does not depend on religion.

— John Ruskin

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

— Emile Durkheim

Laws without morals are in vain.

— Benjamin Franklin

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another.

— Ashly Lorenzana

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

— Paul Tillich

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

— Linus Torvalds

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

— William Blackstone

“Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will…

— Douglas Wilson

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

— Oscar Wilde

“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