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This is no appeal made by a man who does not know his business. I have been practising with scientific precision non-violence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. I have applied it in every walk of life, domestic, institutional, economic and political. I know of no single case in which it has failed. Where it has seemed sometimes to have failed, I have ascribed it to my imperfections. I claim no perfection for my self. But I do claim to be a passionate seeker after Truth, which is but another name for God. In the course of the search the discovery of non-violence came to me. Its spread is my life-mission. I have no interest in living except for the prosecution of that mission.

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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

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A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

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The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

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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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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

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It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

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

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

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

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In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

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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 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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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

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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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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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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.

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God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

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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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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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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

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Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

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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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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

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

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