Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Country

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Freedom, Opportunity

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Inspirational, Country

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Greatness, Population

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Privilege, Journalism

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.263, Rajpal & Sons

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Heart, Men

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Military, India

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Freedom, Want

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.245, Courier Corporation

Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Home, Race

Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.321, Grove Press

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Home, Self

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Women, Dowry

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Produce, Worthy

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

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Men, Welfare

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

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Environmental, India

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Character, Theatre

Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Believe, Spinning

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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”

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Country, Race

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Hurt, Men

Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, India, May

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Dog, Ignorance

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

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Country, Office

Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspiring, Country, Numbers

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.96, Tara Publishing

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Mean, Democracy

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.141, A&C Black

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Government, Self

Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.151, Penguin Books India

Well, India is a country of nonsense

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, India, Nonsense

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.131, Courier Corporation