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India Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

169 India quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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The soul of India lives in its villages, where everyday life shows the country's true heart. Gandhi says the government should carry out the people's will, not force it, and that a free India should work for world peace instead of building weapons. He also warns that using violent means only brings more violence.

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Well, India is a country of nonsense

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

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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

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India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

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If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.

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It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

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An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

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Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

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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…

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Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great…

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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

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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…

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Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

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Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that…

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Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western…

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“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as…

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Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for…

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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…

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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…

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For me patriotism is the sme as humanity. I am patriotic because I am human and humane. It is not exclusive. I…

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If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my…

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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by…

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I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to…

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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have…

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I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I…

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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms…

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It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and…

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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great…

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How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my…

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For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.

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Idleness is the great plague of India.

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Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

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India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

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It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.

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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

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The future of India lies in its villages

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The soul of India lives in its villages.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.