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.
Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.
Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.
An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
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