India Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Liberty, Millions

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• I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, States, Single Word

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independence, Want, Term

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Winning, Sake, Untouchables

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.268, Tara Publishing

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• My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Europe, Facts, Born

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji gave the mantra- Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat. He based Jammu and Kashmir's development on this, and we need to take it ahead.

  Narendra Modi

  Kashmir, Needs, Development

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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