Gandhi Imperialism Quotes

I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century. ~ Rahul Gandhi

You miss all the possibilities of winning if you don't participate ~ Debasish Mridha

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Never forget to love your enemies and pray for their well-being. ~ Debasish Mridha

The earth provides enough to satisfy every person's need, but not every person's greed. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Yesterday was good, but let us dream and work hard to make tomorrow even better. ~ Debasish Mridha

There are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal. ~ Vladimir Putin

It was with some difficulty that I got through the multiplication tables. The fact that I recollect nothing more of those days than having learnt, in company with other boys, to call our teacher all kinds of names, would strongly suggest that my intellect must have been sluggish, and my memory raw. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

According to a group of New England college students, writing in the year 1920, an alien was the following:
"A person hostile to his country."
"A person against the government."
"A person who is on the opposite side."
"A native of an unfriendly country."
"A foreigner at war."
"A foreigner who tries to do harm to the country he is in."
"An enemy from a foreign land."
"A person against a country." etc ...
Yet the word alien is an unusually exact legal term, far more exact than words like sovereignty, independence, national honor, rights, defense, aggression, imperialism, capitalism, socialism, about which we readily take sides "for" or "against. ~ Walter Lippmann

Be the compromise you want to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to the extent of my ability when it was engaged in a war, unless I non-co-operated with the Government and renounced to the utmost of my capacity the privileges it offered me. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

True beauty lies in purity of the heart. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil. ~ Albert Einstein

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898. ~ Noam Chomsky

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

You sing in my mind and dance in my heart. ~ Debasish Mridha

The main battle in imperialism is over land, of course; but when it came to who owned the land, who had the right to settle and work on it, who kept it going, who won it back, and now plans its future--these issues were reflected, contested, and even for a time decided in narrative. As one critic has suggested, nations themselves are narrations. ~ Edward W. Said

I would kind of, you know, go stand next to some unlucky guy and say eventually, Hi, I'm George. You know, I'm with The New Yorker. I'm a liberal. I'm somewhat left of Gandhi. Do you want to talk? And, you know, they always did. ~ George Saunders

The International Committee to support People's War in India salutes all the initiatives held in different countries of the world for the International Days of action on 29-30-31 January 2015. We are carefully collecting all these small and wide actions. They are a sign of solidarity of proletarians and peoples with the fighting masses in India, marching to the liberation from imperialism, feudalism and comprador bourgeoisie, along the epic rebellion began in Naxalbari on 1967, which impetuously comes up to the present day. ~ Anonymous

I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?'
Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been married three years.'
No wonder Gandhi turned out to be a great man. When you get your love life nailed down that early, think of all the time it frees up to devote to Great Ideas. ~ C.D. Payne

Liberation as an intellectual mission, born in the resistance and opposition to the confinements and ravages of imperialism, has now shifted from the settled, established, and domesticated dynamics of culture to its unhoused, decentred, and exilic energies, energies whose incarnation today is the migrant, and whose conciousness is that of the intellectual and artist in exile, the political figure between domains, between forms, between homes, and between languages. From this perspective then all things are indeed counter, original, spare, strange. From this perspective also, one can see 'the complete consort dancing together' contrapuntally. ~ Edward Said

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period. ~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn. ~ Mahatma Gandhi