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Moral Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance,…
- Cowards can never be moral.
- If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior
- To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is…
- ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must…
- One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
- Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
- Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
- Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
- The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless…
- Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is…
- To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
- The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated
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- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
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- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
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- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac