India Quotes - Page 13

• Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Organized

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1958). “Collected works”

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• Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Humanity, Unity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.103, Rajpal & Sons

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• The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, Today, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jail, Would Be, Causes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicidal, Enemy, Slavery

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• Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, Greed, Weak

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

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• Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Individual, Depends

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Matter, Whole

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Different, Claims, Equal

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independence, Territory, Example

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Absolutes

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

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• The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Culture, Synthesis, Soil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Unity, Different

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brother, Mean, Ability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dumb, Salt, Remember

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• Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Community, Finals, Satyagraha

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• The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  West, Indian

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• Idleness is the great plague of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Plague, Idleness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sin, Shame, Mass

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.183, Rajpal & Sons

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• There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Reason, Cautious, University

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• If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teacher, Buddhist, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Humanity, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Break Through, Ifs, Core

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.205, Rajpal & Sons

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• The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fashion, Ideas, Raw Materials

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• If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Roots, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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