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
Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India. — 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
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth. — 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 Image
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 Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image