Jon Stewart Quotes

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Historically, both religious and secular laws originate from the same source

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.

You can't kill bad guys all day long because others will take their place.

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

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

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.