"This belief in the necessity of English..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.”

“The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.”

“A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.”

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

“I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.”

“That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”

“Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn”

“What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.”

“My best training came from my father.”