Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked, always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. ‘Hate the sin and not the sinner’ is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
 Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth (1929). copy citation

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Author Mahatma Gandhi
Source The Story of my Experiments with Truth
Topic understanding sin
Date 1929
Language English
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Note Translated from the Gujarati by Mahadev Desai in 1940
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