Gandhi In English Quotes & Sayings

And so it's interesting to remember that when Mahatma Gandhi, the father of an earlier freedom movement, came to England and was asked what he thought of English civilization, he replied: 'I think it would be a good idea. — Salman Rushdie

It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talk in English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They — Mahatma Gandhi

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

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone. — Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India. At the time of his birth, India had been ruled by the English for over 200 years. "There was nothing unusual about the boy Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, expect perhaps that he was very, very shy. He had no unusual talent, and went through school as a somewhat less than average student."14 — Cameron C. Taylor

The English peace is the peace of the grave. — Mahatma Gandhi

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term. — Mahatma Gandhi

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women. — Mahatma Gandhi

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English. — Mahatma Gandhi

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice. — 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

Violence only makes a situation worse. It cannot help but provoke a violent response. Strictly speaking, satyagraha is not "nonviolence." It is a means, a method. The word we translate as "nonviolence" is a Sanskrit word central in Buddhism as well: ahimsa, the complete absence of violence in word and even thought as well as action. This sounds negative, just as "nonviolence" sounds passive. But like the English word "flawless," ahimsa denotes perfection. Ahimsa is unconditional love; satyagraha is love in action. Gandhi's message — Eknath Easwaran

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing. — Mahatma Gandhi

In the late nineteenth century, many educated Indians were taught the same lesson by their British masters. One famous anecdote tells of an ambitious Indian who mastered the intricacies of the English language, took lessons in Western-style dance, and even became accustomed to eating with a knife and fork. Equipped with his new manners, he travelled to England, studied law at University College London, and became a qualified barrister. Yet this young man of law, bedecked in suit and tie, was thrown off a train in the British colony of South Africa for insisting on travelling first class instead of settling for third class, where 'coloured' men like him were supposed to ride. His name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. — Yuval Noah Harari

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

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder. — Mahatma Gandhi

May not, now or hereafter, enter into a detailed account of the experiments in dietetics, for I did so in a series of Gujarati articles which appeared years ago in Indian Opinion, and which were afterwards published in the form of a book popularly known in English as A Guide to Health. Among my little books this has been the most widely read alike in the East and in the West, a thing that I have not yet been able to understand. It was written for the benefit of the readers of Indian Opinion. But I know that the booklet has profoundly influenced the lives of many, both in the East and in the West, who have never seen Indian Opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. — Mahatma Gandhi

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English. — Pankaj Mishra

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures. — Mahatma Gandhi

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English. — Mahatma Gandhi

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, moral thinker, and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher he was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through his work The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Source: Wikipedia — Leo Tolstoy

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

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else. — Mahatma Gandhi

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak. — Mahatma Gandhi

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias. — Mahatma Gandhi

If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead? — Mahatma Gandhi

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi