Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Writing

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Writing, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.20, Courier Corporation

• It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wall, Writing, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.98, Courier Corporation

• At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Thinking, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.165, A&C Black

• A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Men, Tables

• Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Reading, Writing, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.183, Rajpal & Sons

• Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Answers, Vehement

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Children, Writing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

• Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Expression, Atmosphere

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

• I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Writing, Games

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.12, Rajpal & Sons

• I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Action, Academic

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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