English Language Quotes - Page 16

• We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to describe the essence of the enemy we are attacking, the evil we are eradicating.

  Harvey Mansfield

  Sex, Essence, Evil

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• India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.152, Vintage

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• I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Battle, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Dog, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”

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• That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Matter, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Matter, Language

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• My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Political, Usurpers, Language

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• We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mistake, Thinking, India

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.152, Oxford University Press

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• If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Ignorant, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Injustice, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.66, Hackett Publishing

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• What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Men, Passionate, Body

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• Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Language, Weak

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• What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Violence, Language

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• Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

  Jeff Jarvis

  Doctors, Years, Needs

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• Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Facts, Language

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1924). “Collected works”

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• The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Division, Four

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.328, Rajpal & Sons

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• We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blame, Language, Folly

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity”

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• If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Land, India, Welcome

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.40, Penguin Books India

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• Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long, Independence, Yoke

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.153, Oxford University Press

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• To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essentials, Language, Infatuation

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.170, Courier Corporation

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• My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Political, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.101, A&C Black

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• I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Sake, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

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• It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Single Mom, Hatred, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Liberty, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.165, Rajpal & Sons

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