Mahatma Gandhi Language Quotations

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

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.

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

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

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

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

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

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

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

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

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

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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

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

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.