Ethics Vs. Morals
The words 'ethics' and 'morals' are frequently used interchangeably.
Morals refer to behavior customary in our culture or society. Morals may change as you move from one society to the next.
Ethics refer to your personal standards of right and wrong. Ethics do not change as you move from one society to the next.
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Famous quotes containing the words ethics and/or morals:
“Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man’s yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!”
—Flora Tristan (1803–1844)