What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
