Language Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi · Page 2

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if…

— 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

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

— 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

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

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary…

— 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