Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Language

• 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

• 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”

• Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Air, Giving, Ethics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Brahmins, English Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

• Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Race, India

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.74, Penguin Books India

• It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Would Be, Taste

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

• 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

• The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, People, Disease

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.18, Penguin Books India

• 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

• 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

• My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Heart, Rebel

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

• The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Breathe, British

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Violence, Language

• If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Why Not, Language, Kill Me

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

• A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Use, Language

• Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Land, Movement, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “Volume of prefaces”

• 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

• A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Useless, Language, Unnecessary

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

• Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, India, Fifty

• My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wish, Connections, Dominion

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Language, Weak

• I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Thinking, India

• Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Half, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “The Role of Women”

• Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Language, States

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.73, The Floating Press

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