Mahatma Gandhi Country Quotations

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.

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

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

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

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

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

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

Well, India is a country of nonsense

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.