Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Exploitation

• God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Environmental, India, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

• I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

• Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Ignorance, Poor

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”

• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Freedom, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.245, Courier Corporation

• India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Partners, Domination

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• 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

  Civilization, Greed, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.116, A&C Black

• A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Envy, Occupation, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

• Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, World, Strive

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

• Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Race, India

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.74, Penguin Books India

• The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Exploitation, Astonishing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1931). “Young India”

• I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Heart, Greatest Fear

  Interview with Nirmal Kumar Bose on 9-10 November 1934, Modern Review, p. 412, October 1935.

• Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ambition, Race, Bismarck

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

• My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should, Distress, Exploitation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.108, A&C Black

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