Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Language

• 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

  Government, Injustice, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.66, Hackett Publishing

• It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Single Mom, Hatred, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Air, Giving, Ethics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Brahmins, English Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

• 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

  Mother, Ignorant, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Land, India, Welcome

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.40, Penguin Books India

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Cases, English Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.167, Courier Corporation

• The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Dog, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”

• Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Yield, Hands, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Language, Britain

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

• Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Heart, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.244, Rajpal & Sons

• 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

  Mistake, Thinking, India

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.152, Oxford University Press

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long, Independence, Yoke

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.153, Oxford University Press

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blame, Language, Folly

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity”

• That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Matter, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, India, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

• 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

  Mean, India, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

• Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Way, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.27, Courier Corporation

• 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

• 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

  India, Would Be, Taste

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.152, Vintage

• 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”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, People, Disease

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.18, Penguin Books India

• 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

  Pride, Sake, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

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