Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

I don't know how to play evil.

We live in a society where not everybody has intelligence, or understanding or is thinking of what's right and what's wrong.

People don't think of themselves as evil.

Casting judgments is an integral feature of what makes us human.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?