"Legality alone is no guide for a moral……" — Walter E. Williams
"Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?"
—
Walter E. Williams
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
80 Quotes by Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams has 80 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.
-
Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were…
-
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we…
-
Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
-
The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be…
-
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to…
-
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics.…
-
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
-
Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.
-
How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to…
-
What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making…
-
However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In…
See all 80 quotes by Walter E. Williams »
More Africa Quotes
This quote is filed under Africa Quotes,
one of 1,183 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
-
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
-
I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
-
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
-
I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
-
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
-
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
-
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
-
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
-
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
-
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
See all 1,183 Africa Quotes »