The brute by nature knows no self-restraint. Man is man because he is capable of, and only in so far as he exercises, self-restraint.
 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 restraint brute
Date 1929
Language English
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Note Translated from the Gujarati by Mahadev Desai in 1940
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