Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

… to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.

For me, it was never about the money. It was about the truth, about being honest.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

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

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.