Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Nationalism
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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
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We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
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For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.
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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
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Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
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Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
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Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
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A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.
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My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.
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I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
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Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
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No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
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Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
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That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.
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I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
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If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
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Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.
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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
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Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.
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National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.
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My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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