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LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL
OBJECTS AND CODE OF ETHICS
OBJECTS
- To create and foster a spirit of
understanding among the peoples of the world.
- To promote the principles of good government
and good citizenship.
- To take an active interest in the civic,
cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
- To unite the clubs in the bonds of
friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
- To provide a forum for the open discussion
of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan
politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
- To encourage service-minded people to serve
their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage
efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry,
professions, public works and private endeavours.
CODE OF ETHICS
- To show my faith in the worthiness of my
vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a
reputation for quality of service.
- To seek success and to demand all fair
remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success
at the price of my own self respect lost because of unfair advantage taken
or because of questionable acts on my part.
- To remember that in building up my business
it is not necessary to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or
customers and true to myself.
- Whenever a doubt arises to the right or
ethics of my position or action towards my fellow men, to resolve such
doubt against myself.
- To hold friendship as an end and not a
means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service
performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but
accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
- Always to bear in mind my obligations as a
citizen to my nation, my state and my community, and to give to them my
unswerving loyalty in word, act and deed. To give them freely of my time,
labour and means.
- To aid my fellow men by giving my sympathy
to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
- To be careful with my criticisms and liberal
with my praise; to build up and not destroy.
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