Character Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

— Charles Hodge

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

— Lajos Kossuth

“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

“Moral conduct,or duty,is defined as the obligation to select that action which will achieve more good than any alternative action....”

— Anonymous

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“What then is the relation of law to morality? Law cannot prescribe morality, it can prescribe only external actions and therefore it should prescribe…

— Anonymous

Respect for the law must be the basis for all legal action.

— Viktor Yushchenko

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable…

— Charles Grandison Finney

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to…

— James Anthony Froude

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

— Immanuel Kant

There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will…

— Tony Benn

In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr