The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are:… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
