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.
I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.
Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.
Since there my past life lies, why alter it?
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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