Balance Quote by John Locke

“What then is the relation of law to morality? Law cannot prescribe morality, it can prescribe only external actions and therefore it should prescribe…

— Anonymous

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

— George Edward Moore

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

What can laws do without morals?

— Benjamin Franklin

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

— Allen W. Wood

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What…

— Jerry Garcia

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

— William Blackstone

Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

— Paul Ricoeur