Civilization Quote by Goldwin Smith

“I know it is said in missionary meetings that we conquered India to raise the level of the Indians. That is cant. We conquered…

— William Joynson-Hicks

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is…

— Agnes Smedley

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

— 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 exploitation in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country,…

— Arundhati Roy

“If we are following the same colonial systems and procedures in Free India, are we not actually idealizing the colonial rule?”

— Meenakshi Sundaram V.R

How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they…

— Anonymous

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

— Mahatma Gandhi