Mahatma Gandhi - Man Quotes

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Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.

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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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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

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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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I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

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

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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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He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

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

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

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

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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 believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.

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I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

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Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

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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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If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

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Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

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

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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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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

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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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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

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Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.

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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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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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