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Men Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi writes that religions are meant to bind people together, not to pull them apart. He says a man should serve creation, not rule it, and that true courage means choosing death over losing self‑respect. He also feels kinship with anyone who has erred.

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Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

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Man alone is made in the image of God.

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I trust men only because I trust God.

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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

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A man of truth must also be a man of care.

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Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

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Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

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Man believes and lives.

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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

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That which impels man to do the right thing is God.

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

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Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

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There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

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Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.

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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

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God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

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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…

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It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder…

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The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's…

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The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men,…

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The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

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A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the…

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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over…

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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public…

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That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian…

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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence…

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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if…

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I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a…

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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to…

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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.…

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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…

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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving…

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Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man…

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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the…

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... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I…

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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our…

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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully…

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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…

“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.