Ethics Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I think that we should be men first and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience…

— Henry David Thoreau

“the law cannot respect the conscience of flesh-and-blood human beings unless it also recognizes conscience claims brought by the corporations they form.”

— John Corvino

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences…

— Isaac Barrow

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. That is why we must go on…

— C.S. Lewis

“Man has the right to act in conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions.  "He must not be forced to…

— Aaron Milavec

“we know that men find themselves under a moral law, which they did not make, and cannot quite forget even when they try, and…

— C.S. Lewis

“I would sooner have the approval of my own conscience and know that I had done my duty than to have the praise of…

— Heber J. Grant

“Some men are honorable because of the example set for them, others, choose to be honorable in spite of it”

— Margaret Mallory