17 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Morality

Mahatma Gandhi quotes on morality

7. I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.

11. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

13. Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

24. Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and in-human to impose the Jews on the Arabs.

76. Heavy is the toll of sins and wrongs that wealth, power and prestige extract from man.

82. A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest of repentance.

90. Hate the sin and not the sinner.

92. Useful and useless must, like good and evil, generally go on together; and man must make his choice.

104. Self denial is good for soul.

106. I always gave first place to building of character.

128. Morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality.

143. For this cause I too am prepared to die, but for no cause, my friend, will I be prepared to kill.

172. I would far rather that Hinduism died than untouchability lived.

205. Passive resistance is an all-sided sword; it can be used anyhow; it blesses him who uses it and him against whom it is used.

217. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

244. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.

252. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.