"A smattering of English is worse than..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.
More by Mahatma Gandhi
“Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.”
“Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.”
“Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.”
More on Language
“A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.”
“I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.”
“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”