Behavior Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

You can't legislate morality.

— Jesse Ventura

There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

— Kirk Cameron

“Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon biblical…

— R.J. Rushdoony

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

— Anonymous

“The common mantra of today is that ‘we can’t legislate morality,’ though, of course, every law is a statement of what that nation’s people…

— John Price

“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

What can laws do without morals?

— Benjamin Franklin

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

— A.J. Ayer

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

— Lela Loren

You can't legislate morality- my dad

— Trevor Maxwell

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