One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. — 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
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled. — 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
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
Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
