India Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.96, A&C Black

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Gun, Unity

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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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• We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

  Narendra Modi

  Identity, Generations, Development

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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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• 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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