Quotes about Ethics
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time is always right, to do what's right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpentlike qualities is to be sentimental, anemic, and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers—or we will all perish together as fools.
- 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 function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.