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Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law QUOTES

Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law QUOTES

1 " We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. GEORGE ORWELL "

― J. Budziszewski , Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law

2 " it is impossible to legislate without legislating morality. Try to think of a law that is not based on a moral idea; you won’t be able to do it. "

― J. Budziszewski , Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law

3 " An unsound thinker goes where his motives and interests invite him; a sound thinker goes where the argument takes him. "

― J. Budziszewski , Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law

4 " The virtue of tolerance is relatively new to political debate; Aristotle did not discuss it. From the way the debate is usually framed, however, one gets the impression that all one has to do to achieve tolerance is to avoid the vice of narrowminded repressiveness. On the contrary, like other virtues, tolerance is opposed by not one vice but two, with grave dangers in each direction.5 The diagram should look not like this: Intolerance Tolerance but like this: Narrowminded Repressiveness—Tolerance—Soft-headed Indulgence "

― J. Budziszewski , Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law

5 " To many people today, however, rights are something to protect us against the demands of morality. "

― J. Budziszewski , Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law

6 " No daycare center can duplicate a mother. "

― J. Budziszewski , Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law

7 " the City is not a simple partnership; it is a partnership of partnerships, each of which already has a pattern of its own, a pattern that government did not give it. These partnerships best flourish in that larger partnership which is the City, and law merely assures the background conditions—the most important of which is simple justice—they need in order to do so. Thus the proper aim of the state is not to do everything itself but to support a life which was there before it. "

― J. Budziszewski , Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law