Character Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Laws without morals are in vain.

— Benjamin Franklin

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.

— Norm MacDonald

Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

What can laws do without morals?

— Benjamin Franklin

Morals are private. Decency is public.

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Havelock Ellis

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

— Thomas Jefferson

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Good morals lead to good laws.

— Chuck Norris

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

— Mark Steyn

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

— Honore de Balzac