Character Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Morals are private. Decency is public.

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

— Henry Adams

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

— George Washington

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Being morally honest means sitting down and actually listening to a person and understanding where they're coming from.

— Charlamagne tha God

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The sincerity to protect, prevent and preserve the morality of the humanity in life is an honesty of integrity.

— Anuj Somany

“What is called the morality of a society is no more than a consequence of the morality of individuals. There is, by the same…

— Wendell Berry

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress…

— H. G. Wells