Sentence examples for a code of morality from inspiring English sources
"Today we would not define as an ethical scheme a code of morality that could legitimate injustice — racial or class," he wrote.
Just off the B4070 between Cheltenham and Stroud is a village called Whiteway where in 1898 an anarchist collective established a community on the lines of the teachings of Tolstoy, self-built and self-sufficient and observing a code of morality which caused twitterings all over the county.
A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
Speaking at the State Department, Mr. Kerry said the attack "defies any code of morality" and should "shock the conscience of the world".
Ayn Rand: "I am the creator of a new code of morality... a morality not based on faith".
Clan members were scattered in different localities; the basic political unit was the hill community, whose members shared a tract of land and a common code of morality.
Modern state societies rate as exceptional by the standards of human history, because we instead grow up learning a universal code of morality that is constantly hammered into us: promulgated every week in our churches and codified in our laws.
The Catholic thinker Bertrand Vergely hailed the reintroduction of a single code of morality into the school system, but wondered if the Socialists — "who have devoted the last 40 years to the destruction of the meaning and sense of morality" — were best equipped to undertake the task.
In real life there seems to be an underlying code of morality and decency he strives to obey — sometimes to contradictory and comic effect — and he acknowledges he is drawn to similar roles in his work.
