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Ethics can be thought of a moral responsibility or set of principles that help in differentiating between right and wrong for an individual, a group, or an organization. Ethics play a crucial role in our routine and provide a framework for making decisions. Ethics are a set of rules/guidelines based on the theme 'honesty' and at the same time also look into the well-being of a firm. Ethics help in disciplining an individual and guide him in the right direction, be it his career or life, in general. Adopting ethics also helps people in refraining from wrongdoings.

The whole point of incorporating ethics is to have the right attitude, right behavior, respect for others, and effective communication. Due to a complex society with significant moral concepts, the management of any organization tends to adopt a few ethical codes. These ethics turn out to be one of the fundamental requirements needed to run an organization. Professional ethics plays a crucial role in everyone’s life as we all know learning starts at home. It would be difficult for an individual without personal ethics to follow professional or business ethics. Browse through these famous ethics quotes and moral values quotations to learn more about the topic.
John Cena

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

Discipline World
John Cena
Samuel Alito

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

Spirit
Samuel Alito
D. H. Lawrence

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Principles Justice Change
D. H. Lawrence
Albert Camus

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

World
Albert Camus
Walter Winchell

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

Principles
Walter Winchell
B. R. Ambedkar

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Victory History
B. R. Ambedkar
Jorge Luis Borges

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Wickedness
Jorge Luis Borges
Albert Schweitzer

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Life Nothing
Albert Schweitzer
B. R. Ambedkar

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Good People Religion
B. R. Ambedkar
Christian Bale

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

People Character Hope
Christian Bale
Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Perfection Personality
Albert Schweitzer
Jorge Luis Borges

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

Wickedness
Jorge Luis Borges
Albert Schweitzer

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Compassion Life
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Compassion Living
Albert Schweitzer
Carl Sandburg

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

Right
Carl Sandburg
Robin Williams

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

Business Work
Robin Williams
Steven Seagal

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

Politics Dignity
Steven Seagal
Henry Miller

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

Henry Miller
Charles Baudelaire

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Glory Literature
Charles Baudelaire
Bertrand Russell

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Art
Bertrand Russell
Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Culture
Ayn Rand

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

People Religion
Rudy Giuliani