Peter Fonda Quotes

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted.

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

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

I object to Parliament trying to regulate private morality in matters which only affects the person who commits the offence.

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

You can't legislate morality.

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

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.

Why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?

I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans ...

A free enterprise system that is not underlaid with values is bankrupt.

As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.

There should be no hindrance to what we want to do, what we want to wear, what we think and how we want to travel. Do what you want to do as long as you are not breaking any law.

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

It really is this: you are either for liberty, you're for freedom, and you're for living how you want to live without infringing and impugning on anyone else's rights, or you want the state to deal with everything.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.