Apartheid Quote by Walter E. Williams

How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is…

— Walter E. Williams

“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

Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as unjust. And…

— Thomas Pogge

“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them…

— Frédéric Bastiat

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without…

— James W. Loewen

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

— Edward Snowden

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

— Jean Anouilh

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

— Julian Baggini

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

— Jack London

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

— Shakuntala Devi

The law is immoral.

— Mark Thomas