Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Wife

• I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Hands, Wife

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.340, Grove Press

• God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Daughter, Mother

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

• It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspiration, Self, Jewels

• Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Ambition, Hunting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Men, Equality

• It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Wife, Religion

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