Noun
moral code (plural moral codes)
(ethics) A written, formal, and consistent set of rules prescribing righteous behavior, accepted by a person or by a group of people.
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Frédéric Bastiat
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. Ayn Rand
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it. José Ortega y Gasset
Prentice: This appalling situation is the result of my lax moral code. It's clean living and Teach Yourself Woodwork for me from now on! Joe Orton