West Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

9 West quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

If you’re curious how Gandhi framed the West, this short set offers a clear window into his thoughts. Though brief, the nine entries capture his distinctive voice on the topic, giving you a focused taste without overwhelm.

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Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.

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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

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The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

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The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

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Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.

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

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In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

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The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that…

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

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