Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.
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Unknown
I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.
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Daniel Radcliffe
Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.
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A.E. Samaan
We ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)
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Michael Pollan
I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.
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A.E. Samaan
More Quotes By Moses Mendelssohn
Time is a part of eternity and of the same piece with it.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
