"No country can become a nation by..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
More by Mahatma Gandhi
“People become what they expect themselves to become”
“The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.”
“That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.”
More on Nation
“We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.”
“An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.”
“A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.”
More on Identity
“If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.”
“Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.”
“Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.”