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
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
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body. — 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
If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the… — 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
Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a… — 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
Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that… — 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
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
A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of… — 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
To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near. — 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
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in… — 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
Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment. — 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
The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages. — 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
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
