Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Do not follow a multitude to do evil.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

We all have the duty to do good.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

No man ought to be condemned for exhorting people to pursue justice in a certain line, though he may foresee that in the pursuit of that justice the opposition given to those who are proceeding in a just course may produce collision, and that collision lead to the commission of crime; but our duty, as I conceive, is to seek for the injustice, and there to impute the crime… It is to that injustice, and not to those who pursue a just course for the attainment of a right end, that the guilt is to be ascribed.

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

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

When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

We all have to take responsibility for what we say and do.

I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.