Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Morality
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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.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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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.
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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.
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Heavy is the toll of sins and wrongs that wealth, power and prestige extract from man.
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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.
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Hate the sin and not the sinner.
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Useful and useless must, like good and evil, generally go on together; and man must make his choice.
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Self denial is good for soul.
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I always gave first place to building of character.
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Morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality.
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For this cause I too am prepared to die, but for no cause, my friend, will I be prepared to kill.
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I would far rather that Hinduism died than untouchability lived.
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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.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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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.
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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.