Quotes About Morality

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is unjust by accident.

Nonviolence and truth (Satya) are inseparable and presuppose one another. There is no god higher than truth.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Morality is contraband in war.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.