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# Clive Staples Lewis on the impossibility of making people good by law
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/nevozmozhno-sdelat-liudei-khoroshimi-po-zakonu-a-bez-khoroshikh-liudei-ne-mozhet-byt-khoroshego-obshchestva/
- Published: 2023-12-20T05:31:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:38:10.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Society

You cannot make people good by law, and without good people there can be no good society. That is why we must think about the second thing: morality within the individual.

Clive Staples Lewis