Ethics Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse…

— Martin Luther King Jr

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

— Hosea Ballou

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

— Publilius Syrus

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

— Max Frisch

The law is the public conscience.

— Thomas Hobbes

“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