Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

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

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

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

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

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

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Obey human laws that do not conflict with God's laws.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

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.