Ethics and Morality

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Common sense is a realized sense of proportion.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender; for it is all give and no take.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

While money doesn’t talk, it swears.

You lose more of yourself than you redeem Doing the decent thing.

What was it missing, then, at the man’s heart so that he does not wound?

withdrew into a corner of the gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

To hurt the Negro and avoid the Jew Is the curriculum.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Sir, no man’s enemy, forgiving all But will his negative inversion, be prodigal.

Let us honor if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness, Could not ourselves be kind. But you, when at last it comes to pass That man can help his fellow man, Do not judge us Too harshly.