Mahatma Gandhi Men Quotations [Page 4]

But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

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.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

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

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

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.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

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

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.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

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

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma Gandhi

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

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

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.

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.