Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Conscience

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Justice, Court

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

• Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

• In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Freedom, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

• The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Distance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Atheist, Atheism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

• I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Religion, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

• A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leader, Useless

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.132, A&C Black

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Godly, Men, Light

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.55, A&C Black

• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Courage, Truth

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.138, A&C Black

• There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Voice, Tears

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

• God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Light, Above And Beyond

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.53, A&C Black

• For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Mean, Voice

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.48, Oxford University Press

• I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Trying, World

• I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Death Penalty, Gallows

  "India must do away with the death penalty" by Seema Sengupta, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2012.

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Thinking, Principles

• The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Voice, Finals, Conflict

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.39, Rajpal & Sons

• The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1923). “Letters on Indian Affairs”

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