A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
Interpretation
Laws should be grounded in morality to ensure compliance from the citizens.
Chaim Weizmann emphasizes that for laws to be effective, they must be founded on a moral framework. When citizens can personally resonate with the moral basis of a law, they are more likely to feel an intrinsic motivation to adhere to it, rather than simply following rules out of obligation or fear of punishment.
In practice
In a discussion about the relationship between justice and law during a community meeting.
Palestine must be built up without violating the legitimate interests of the Arabs.. Palestine is not Rhodesia... 600,0000 Arabs live there, who before the sense of justice of the world have exactly the same rights to their homes as we have to our National Home.
Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.
The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. _x000D_ God is the ground, the substance, _x000D_ the teaching, the teacher, _x000D_ the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me
Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.
Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.
Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets are creating a new universal narrative that legitimises the authority of algorithms and Big Data.
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