Mahatma Gandhi - Human Quotes

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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

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God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

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Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

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The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.

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God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

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Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

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The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.

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The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

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The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and in-human to impose the Jews on the Arabs.

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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

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Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love...

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My joy was boundless. I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby - not even money, certainly not my soul.

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If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

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Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

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Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

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The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

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Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.

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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

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To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

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England has got successful competitors in America, Japan, France, Germany. It has competitors in the handful of mills in India, and as there has been an awakening in India, even so there will be an awakening in South Africa with its vastly richer resources — natural, mineral and human. The mighty English look quite pigmies before the mighty races of Africa. They are noble savages after all, you will say. They are certainly noble, but no savages and in the course of a few years the Western nations may cease to find in Africa a dumping ground for their wares.

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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.

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