Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Ethics

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Freedom, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

• They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wise, Respect

  "Fictional character: Mohandas K. Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

• Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Air, Giving, Ethics

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

• Morality is contraband in war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, War, Ethics

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

• Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Ethics, Vow

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

• 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

• All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Dust, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.8, North Atlantic Books

• To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, And Love, Ethics

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

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Ambition, Mean

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Passion, Men, Civilization

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

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