Jack Kevorkian Quotes

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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.

If the law commands me to sin, I will break it.

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

Fear is the mother of morality.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law

You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Conscience? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

What is morally correct and what is legally correct are not always the same thing.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.

Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and disobedience to the State has, over and over again, happened throughout history. It is time again to cry out against our 'leaders,' to question (since it is not for us to say that they are evil) whether or not they are sane.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.