Ca India Quotes

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

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

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

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

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

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.

On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

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

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

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

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

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.

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.

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.

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

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.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

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

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

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

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

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

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

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

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

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

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.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.