Ethics Quote by Immanuel Kant

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.

— Thomas Jefferson

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from…

— Albert Schweitzer

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

— Aldo Leopold

We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

— Dwight L. Moody

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish…

— Confucius

Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.

— Howard Zinn

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another…

— Samuel Johnson

Things in law tend to be black and white. But we all know that some people are a little bit guilty, while other people…

— Marie Louise De La Ramee