Dayananda Saraswati Quotes

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

The headquarters of good principles.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Truth Alone Triumphs

Civilization depends on morality.

No man can make a million dollars honestly.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonestly: the man who respects it has earned it.

I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.

I never, in all my life, took any mean advantage of an enemy.

We have to stand for the truth.

Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.