I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do… — 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
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment). — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a… — 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
