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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
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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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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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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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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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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
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Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
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When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.
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A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.
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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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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
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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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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
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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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It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace … Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?
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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 sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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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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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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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.
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No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
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Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
Mahatma Gandhi
1942 © Wallace Kirkland
Born:
October 2, 1869
Died:
January 30, 1948
(aged 78)
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