Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Morality is a social necessity

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Life is moral responsibility.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.