"Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration."
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"That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God."
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"Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence."
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"I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds."
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"It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher."
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"It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man."
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"God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind."
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"It is the law of love that rules mankind."
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"Man believes and lives."
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"I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible."
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"Truth is superior to man s wisdom."
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"All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind."
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"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."
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"Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived."
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"God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind."
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"General consultant to mankind."
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"Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results."
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"The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind."
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"Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind."
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"Poetry is the mysticism of mankind."
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