Moral Liberty Quotes

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.

The aim is freedom conscience and truth

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

Moral liberty is the power of following, in all circumstances, our sense of right and wrong, or of acting in conformity to our reflecting and moral principles, without being controlled by any contrary principles.

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a) they know what they are doing, (b) they consent to it, and (c) no one - at least no one other than the participants - is harmed by it.

Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?

If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.