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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 48

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The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

Mahatma Gandhi
Air, Water, Spinning
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Quiet, Satyagraha, Pursuit
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spinning, Wheels, Study
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

Mahatma Gandhi
Soul, Spinning, Wheels

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mother, Ignorant, Done
Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mistake, Thinking, India
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.152, Oxford University Press

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

Mahatma Gandhi
People, Language, British
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.328, Rajpal & Sons

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

Mahatma Gandhi
Thinking, Rams, Language
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

Mahatma Gandhi
Training, Belief, Language
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ideas, Liberty, India
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.165, Rajpal & Sons

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Heart, Rebel
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

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Government, British Soldiers, Matter
Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

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Faith, People, Willing

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Mean, Doe
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Connections, Behaviour
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Acceptance, Ruins
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

God alone is immortal, imperishable.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Immortal
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.79, Rajpal & Sons

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Transitory, Illusory

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Men, Able
Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

The sum total of karma is God.

Mahatma Gandhi
Karma, God
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
World, Messages, Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism, Untouchability, Died
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.268, Tara Publishing

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism, Modern, Untouchability
Gandhi (Mahatma) (1924). “Collected works”

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

Mahatma Gandhi
Wall, Mind, India

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

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Suicidal, Enemy, Slavery