Lawrence Kohlberg Quotes

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

I have a moral conscience that is real central.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.