In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
Ethics are more important than laws.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
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