Moral Conduct

someone, you still try to offer something to them. And if someone tries to provoke you, you keep your composure and respond with dignity, without being provoked. Character means that kind of good behaviour in which there is the spirit of decency, well-wishing, and openheartedness. A person with good character is someone in whose life there are qualities like the light of the sun and the fragrance of flowers. The thing that is most needed to build a good society is people with good character. A society whose people have good character, who live with one another while fulfilling the demands of morality and humanity—that society will surely be a better society. A better moral society is another name for a better human society. If you want to uplift society, then uplift the morals and character of the people living in it. If you want to improve society, then morally improve the character of its people. This is the only sure way to build a better society. There is no other way apart from this. All India Radio, New Delhi, on 4 February 1993.