“Hanya Tuhan yang boleh mengambil hidup seseorang, karena Ia yang memberikannya.”
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Attribution note
Reflects Gandhi's reverence for life and opposition to killing, but this specific wording appears only in Indonesian quote collections without a primary source; attribution unverified. Also non-English.
Likely origin: Indonesian saying credited to Gandhi on the sanctity of life ('Only God may take a life, for He gives it'); no reliable primary source located.
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The reasoning ties the right to end a life to the power to create one: since no human can truly make a life from nothing, none can claim the authority to destroy it. It's the root of a deep reverence for life, treating what you cannot give back as something you have no license to take.
When to use it
- A juror wrestling hard with a capital case, unwilling to treat a verdict about a life as a light thing.
- A doctor honoring a dying patient's comfort rather than rushing any irreversible decision.
- A hunter who takes only what a family will eat and refuses to kill for sport.