Conduct Rules Quotes

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.

… law as it exists in the modern community may be conveniently, although perhaps not comprehensively, defined as the sum total of all those rules of conduct for which there is state sanction.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.