“An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.”
Source: India of My Dreams
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.”
Source: Young India
“For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
Source: India of My Dreams
“On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.”
Source: My Picture of Free India
“If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.”
“India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
Source: Collected Works
“In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.”
Source: Wit and wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
Source: India of My Dreams
“I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.”
Source: The Essential Writings
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
Source: Collected Works
“I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
Source: Young India
Source: Collected Works
“I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works
Source: Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation
Source: My Picture of Free India
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works
Source: Communal Unity
Source: Collected Works
“In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings