Moral Law Quotes

Moral Law Quote of the day

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.

Good morals lead to good laws.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'

Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.

The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.