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 would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister. — 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
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
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel. — 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
On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the… — 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
I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations,… — 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
It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise. — 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
I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals… — 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 stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj. — 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
The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish. — 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
Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require? — 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
Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners. — 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