Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

The foundations of morality are like all other foundations: If you dig too much about them, the superstructure will come tumbling down.

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Morality is a social necessity

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

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

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

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.