India Quotes - Page 39

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

Well, India is a country of nonsense

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

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

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

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.