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Some of the renowned thoughts –Helpful for your Ethics paper THOUGHTS 1. Before you do anything, stop and recall the face of the poorest most helpless destitute person you have seen and ask yourself, Is what I am about to do going to help him? 2. It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. 3. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. 4. Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large. 5. A person who is worried about the outcome of his work do...

Ethics  is a  set of standards  that society places on itself and which helps  guide behaviour, choices and actions . The crux of  ethical behaviour  does not lie in bold words and expressions enshrined as standards, but in their  adoption in action, in sanctions against their violations, in putting in place competent disciplinary bodies to investigate allegations of violations and impose sanctions quickly and in promoting a culture of integrity . Corruption is an important manifestation of the failure of ethics. Corruption and abuse of office has been aggravated by three factors. Colonial legacy of unchallenged authority  and  propensity to exercise power arbitrarily .   There is enormous  asymmetry of power  in our society. The Indian state in the early decades after Independence chose a set of policies whose unintended consequence was to put the  citizen at the mercy of the State . Ov...