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Chandrakant Bagoria [Rank 75 UPSC 2022] [Ethics Score- 132]

Ethics
1. Ethics is the set of standards which guide our behaviour, choices and actions.
2. Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have right to do and what is
right to do. [Potter Stewart]
3. It is not living that matters but living rightly- Socrates
4. In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he
only thinks of doing so. [Immanuel Kant]
5. Unethical behaviour significantly increases the cost of doing business.
6. It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Values
1. Values are like lighthouses; they are signals giving us direction, meaning and
purpose.
2. Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are same, but you leave them all over
everything you do.- Elvis Presley.
3. It is not living that matters but living rightly- Socrates
4. “Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are
not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those
who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus
honesty is attained”. - Lao Tzu
5. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value:
Albert Einstein.
6. Conclusion-A person without
values is the beast left loose
in the world. (Albert Camus)

Morality
1. Life without reason and
morality has no value.
[Immanuel Kant]

Modern Values VS Traditional Values

1. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values. [Dalai Lama]
2. “Children should be taught modernisation not westernisation”
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Role of Family
1. The three key societal members who can make a difference are father, mother
and teacher. [APJ Kalam]

Right to freedom of speech

1. I disagree with what you say, but I will defend till death your right to say it. -Voltaire

Tolerance
1. I disagree with what you say, but I will defend till death your right to say it. -Voltaire
2. Mark of an educated mind is to entertain a thought without accepting it.
3. Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides- Rig Veda.

Education
1. “Education is the most powerful weapon with which you can use to change the
world.”- Nelson Mandela
2. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think” - Margaret Mead
3. Mark of educated mind is to entertain a thought without accepting it.
4. “Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge.
Knowledge makes you great.” - APJ Abdul Kalam

Attitude
1. Your attitude not your aptitude, will determine your altitude [Zig Zigler]
2. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” — Dale Carnegie
3. Keep your face to the sunshine, and you can not see the shadow. [Hellen Keller]
[Positive attitude towards life despite being disabled]
4. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. [Hellen Keller]
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Persuasion

Aptitude

Sympathy

Empathy
1. Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ear of another,
and feeling with the heart of another.

Compassion
1. Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.
2. Kindness and compassion can heal those wounds which medicine can’t.

Anger
1. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
2. Anyone can become angry- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person,
to the right degree, at the right time for right purpose, and in the right way- that
is not easy. [Aristotle]
3. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his
enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. [Aristotle]

Happiness

Gratitude
1. Give a man everything he wants and at that moment, everything will not be
everything. [Immanuel Kant]

Emotional Intelligence
1. Emotional intelligence allows us to respond instead of react.
2. Anyone can become angry- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the
right degree, at the right time for right purpose, and in the right way- that is not easy.
[Aristotle]
3. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
4. Emotionally intelligent leaders know when to display the emotions and when to delay
emotions.
5. Emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of Career Success [Daniel
Goleman]
6. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies,
for the hardest victory is over self. [Aristotle]
7. Rule your feelings, lest your feelings will rule you.
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Discipline
1. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments
2. “Nishkama Karma” ─ “Be intent on action not on the fruits of action; avoid
attraction to the fruits and attachment to inaction.”

Corruption/ Misappropriation of Funds

1. Corruption is paid by the poor [Pope Francis]
2. Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it―
Saint Augustine
3. If corruption is disease transparency is essential part of its treatment. [Kofi Annan]
4. One should earn the bread by the sweat of one’s brow- not by the bounty of
the state [Gandhi]
5. There is a higher
court than court
of justice and that
is court of
conscience.
[Gandhi]
6. Power corrupts
and absolute
power corrupts
absolutely [Lord
Acton]
7. Power does not
corrupt man, rather
people with bad
intention corrupt
the power. [George
Bernard Shaw]
8. Edmund Burke-
triumph of evil
signifies that
good man did
nothing.
9. Indifference is the
best breeding
ground for corruption to grow.
10. Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a
contagion that can affect multiple beings in society - Bertrand Russell
11. In the end right or truth always prevails as also conveyed by the motto Satyamev
Jayate.
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Law
1. A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly followed.
2. The best government is one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
3. Laws are spider webs through which big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
[Honore De Balzac]
4. Napoleon- the world suffers not because of violence of bad, but because of
silence of good.
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Religion
1. I believe only true religion consists of having a good heart. [Dalai Lama]
2. Religion is never the problem, it is the people who use it to gain power.
3. Religion does not consist in acting temples, or building churches, or attending public
worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organisations.
Religion consists in realisation. [Swami Vivekananda]
4. Compassion is the key in Hinduism and Islam and Buddhism and Christianity. They
are profoundly similar.

Faith
1. Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase
[Martin Luther King Junior]
2. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. [Ravindra Nath
Tagore]
3. We are twice armed, if we fight with faith [Plato]

Dharma
1. “Dharma is the foundation stone of good governance”- Buddha

Governance
1. If governance is a ship to reach the destination of development and welfare,
governance without ethics is a ship without rudder. Ethics is the captain who
navigates it through moral turpitude to reach its desired goal.

E-Governance

Public Service
1. Vivekananda- Daridra Narayan- Service to poor is service to God
2. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
[Gandhi]
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3. Those who live for themselves die, those who die for society live [Anna
Hazare]
4. Public Service: "Leave your footprints on the sand of time by your good work” -
Vivekananda

Leadership
1. Leadership is
service not position.
[Tim Fargo]
2. “If Ethics is poor at
the top, the
behaviour is copied
down the
organisation”--
Robert Noyce
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Accountability
1. Accountability breeds responsibility [Stephen Covey]
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Transparency

1. A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity. [Dalai

Lama]
2. If corruption is disease transparency is essential part of its treatment. [Kofi
Annan]
3. Information is the currency of democracies [Thomas Jefferson]

Integrity

Anonymity
1. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody is going to know whether
you did it or not.

Courage
1. Courage is first of human virtues-
Aristotle
2. Napoleon- the world suffers not
because of violence of bad, but
because of silence of good.
3. Be the change you wish to see in the
world.
4. There are only two forces in the world,
the sword and the spirit. In the long
run the sword will always be
conquered by the spirit. Napoleon
Bonaparte
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Honesty
1. “Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not
good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are
honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is
attained”. - Lao Tzu

Probity
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Justice
1. Geographical proximity to justice is an important component of access to justice.
2. Martin Luther King Junior - “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere”.

Liberty
1. Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.

Women
1. “Where Women are honoured, divinity blossoms there, and wherever women
are dishonoured, all action remains unfruitful.” – Manusmriti

Weaker Section

Intellectual humility
1. All I know is that I know nothing- Socrates
2. An unexamined life is not worth living- Socrates
3. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit (Aristotle)
4. 4 Cardinal Virtues

Organisation culture/ work culture

1. “If Ethics is poor at the
top, the behaviour is
copied down the
organisation”- Robert
Noyce
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Corporate Governance/ Business Ethics

1. “If Ethics is poor at the top, the behaviour is copied down the organisation”- Robert
Noyce
2. Unethical behaviour significantly increases the cost of doing business.
3. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. [Warren
Buffet]

Environmental ethics
1. “Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth” - Native American Proverb
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2. Nature has enough for man’s need but not for man’s greed. [Gandhi]
3. One must care for the world one will not see - Gandhi (please remember this;
any question on climate change, environment conservation, quote this)

Environment conservation
1. Newspapers are nothing but dead trees with information smeared on them.

Patriotism
1. A saint travelling to Japan asked a child "What do you live for?" The child replied
with confidence "I live for Japan". This is the kind of patriotism that we need in all
Indian if we truly want to become a superpower.

Fake News

Media/ social media

1. Whoever control media controls the mind [Jim Morrison]
2. The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people. -Jon
Ronson

Truth
1. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Inequality
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Gandhi Ji

International Relations