Englishmen Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi · Page 2

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal…

— Mahatma Gandhi

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is…

— Mahatma Gandhi