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Ethical code   /ˈɛθəkəl koʊd/   Listen
Ethical code

noun
1.
A system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct.  Synonym: ethic.





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"Ethical code" Quotes from Famous Books



... than the divorce of politics from morals, but in practical politics public and private morals will never absolutely correspond. The public opinion of the nation will inevitably inspire and control its statesmen. It creates in all countries an ethical code which with greater or less perfection marks out for them the path of duty, and though a great statesman may do something to raise its level, he can never wholly escape its influence. In different nations it is higher or lower—in truthfulness and sincerity ...
— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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... character, it is said the discussion of legal ethics will do him no particular good, because if he is tempted to a crooked path or an unjust act by his pecuniary interest, he will yield, and neither lectures on ethics nor the establishment of an ethical code will make him good; whereas the upright man will either not be so tempted, or should he be, he will clearly perceive the ...
— Ethics in Service • William Howard Taft
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