India Quotes - Page 12

• I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ruins, Lancashire, Peasants

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Class, Tasks, Slavery

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.113, The Floating Press

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• My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Benefits, World, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, Messages, Belief

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• My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rounds

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• My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Slavery, Fruit

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Progress, Pace, Might

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• All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Military, Want

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• I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Borders, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Aggressive, Destructive, Exclusive

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.116, A&C Black

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• Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Urbanization, Village

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, World, Weight

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, Would Be, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, Real, Looks

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Age, Culture, Cases

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• Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, Habit, Guides

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.142, Grove Press

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• The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Cottages, Might

  Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”

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• Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fashion, West, Drink

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Government, Civilization

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.8, Rajpal & Sons

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• The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dust, Extravagance, Apes

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

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• It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Would Be, Division

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, Working Together, Twenties

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Succeed, Operators

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.32, Hackett Publishing

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• Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Skeletons, World, Cows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.123, Orient Paperbacks

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• The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mills, Conception

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