Character Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

Good morals lead to good laws.

— Chuck Norris

Laws without morals are in vain.

— Benjamin Franklin

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

— Honore de Balzac

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You…

— Edgar Mitchell

What can laws do without morals?

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Emile Durkheim

Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

— George Bernard Shaw

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

— Denis Diderot

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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