Ethics Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

15 Ethics quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi’s ethical stance is woven through every word he wrote. This concise collection captures his steadfast commitment to non‑violence, truth, and the power of personal responsibility.

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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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To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

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God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

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They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

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God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

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The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,…

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Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

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I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy…

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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to…

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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even…

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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality…

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To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and…

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My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life…

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…

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“Where there is life.”

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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