Character Quote by Brandon Sanderson

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values…

— Ashly Lorenzana

“We may disagree with the morality of a law, but we cannot deny the moral concern of a law.”

— R.J. Rushdoony

“Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.”

— Michel Templet

“Our law and our morality contradict one another.”

— Joseph Befumo

“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”

— Edward Bond

“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives…

— Robert H. Jackson

“Crime exists because immorality is wicked and morality is weak.”

— Amit Kalantri

“When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense,…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“In violation of any given law, first you must understand it, and then keep it.”

— Rita A. Barnes

“Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a…

— Mark Steyn