Mahatma Gandhi - Man Quotes

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The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

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Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.

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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

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God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

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Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

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Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

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Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.

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Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said:

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Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

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

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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

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A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

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We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

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I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else.... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

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The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.

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I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

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My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

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What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

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Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

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