Character Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization depends on morality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

— Matthew Arnold

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in…

— Immanuel Kant

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except…

— Allen W. Wood

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

— Albert Einstein

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the…

— Annie Besant

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin