Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.
Interpretation
Legal actions may not always align with moral or ethical choices.
This quote by William J. Clinton suggests that while certain actions may be permissible under law, they may not necessarily be right or just. It highlights the importance of moral judgment in our decision-making processes, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ethical implications of their choices beyond mere legality.
In practice
In a debate about civil rights, one could use this quote to underline the importance of moral considerations.
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security... It's very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you're not more likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things.
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.
For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.
There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.
Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.
I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.
Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.
Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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