Nations Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

— Mahatma Gandhi

India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms…

— Mahatma Gandhi

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

— Mahatma Gandhi