India Quotes - Page 38

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.

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

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

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

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

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

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.