Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Morality

• 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

• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

• True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Track, Patriotism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.169, A&C Black

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Motherhood, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.159, A&C Black

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Moral Growth, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• 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”

• Cowards can never be moral.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Coward, Morality, Moral

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

• Morality is contraband in war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, War, Ethics

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

• 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

• A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Morality, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

• Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Morality, Economics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

• Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morality, Duty, Term

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

• It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Men, Principles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morality, Moral, Results

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.251, Oxford University Press

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rely Upon, World, Arms

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

• 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

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Character, Theatre

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morality, Economics, Disregard

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.118, A&C Black

• The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Moral Development, Intellectual

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons

• To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Passion, Mind, Mastery

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

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Army, Height

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.82, Penguin Books India

• The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Civilization, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.17, Rajpal & Sons

• Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Lax, Morality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

• 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

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