"It is man's social nature which distinguishes..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
More by Mahatma Gandhi
“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.”
“Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.”
“Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.”
More on Human Nature
“When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?”
“We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.”
“Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.”