Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Morality
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.
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A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.
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Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.
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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.
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Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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Cowards can never be moral.
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A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
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The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
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It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.
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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
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My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.
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Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.
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That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.
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Morality is contraband in war.
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The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
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Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
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To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.
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To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
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Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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