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Nature of man Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi reminds us that all living things share a brotherhood, and that humans feel the same joy and desire for freedom as other beings. He stresses that truth, non‑violence and pure duty protect the dignity of human nature. He also says that true friendship builds the foundations of peace for the whole world.

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Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

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It is the law of love that rules mankind.

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Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

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I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.

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Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

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The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

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No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

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Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he…

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I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is…

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Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

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Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all…

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable…

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I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

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Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

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There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive…

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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but…

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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…

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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…

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Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands…

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With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought…

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I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by…

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It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago.…

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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of…

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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

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What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

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The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

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In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full…

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Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog…

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The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

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Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my…

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Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and…

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Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or…

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If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for…

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Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

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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.

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“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.