Behavior Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Anonymous

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Aren’t all laws simply man’s attempt to codify moral concepts? Is not “legislation” simply our combined agreement as to what is “right” and “wrong”?…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

— Anonymous

Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.

— Smriti Irani

You can't legislate morality.

— Jesse Ventura

“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

While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.

— Jamie Dimon

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

— Cal Thomas

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation…

— Margrethe Vestager

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

— Ben Elton

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

— Myrtle Reed