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I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
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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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A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
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Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.
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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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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 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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Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.
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Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.
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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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No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
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No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.
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A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
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I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
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A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.
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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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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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God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.
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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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Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Mahatma Gandhi
1942 © Wallace Kirkland
Born:
October 2, 1869
Died:
January 30, 1948
(aged 78)
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