Third class in Indian railways Quotes

“Gift of life is the greatest of all gifts;”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“The question of vernaculars as media of instruction is of national importance; neglect of the vernaculars means national suicide.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“It is a known fact that the third class traffic pays for the ever-increasing luxuries of first and second class travelling. Surely a third class passenger is entitled at least to the bare necessities of life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“join me in the crusade against educated Indians abandoning their manners, habits and customs which are not proved to be bad or harmful.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“I am an enthusiast myself, but twenty-five years of experimenting and experience have made me a cautious and discriminating enthusiast.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“A helpless girl in the hands of a follower of Ahimsa finds better and surer protection than in the hands of one who is prepared to defend her only to the point to which his weapons would carry him.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“Ahimsa requires deliberate self-suffering, not a deliberate injuring of the supposed wrong-doer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“Indeed, the proper practice of Ahimsa requires me to withdraw the intended victim from the wrong-doer,”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“My patriotism is both exclusive and inclusive. It is exclusive in the sense that in all humility I confine my attention to the land of my birth, but it is inclusive in the sense that my service is not of a competitive or antagonistic nature”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“He is the true soldier who knows how to die and stand his ground in the midst of a hail of bullets.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“If we are unmanly today, we are so, not because we do not know how to strike, but because we fear to die.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“If we have lost faith in our vernaculars, it is a sign of want of faith in ourselves; it is the surest sign of decay.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“This may all sound nonsensical. Well, India is a country of nonsense. It is nonsensical to parch one's throat with thirst when a kindly Mahomedan is ready to offer pure water to drink. And yet thousands of Hindus would rather die of thirst than drink water from a Mahomedan household. These nonsensical men can also, once they are convinced that their religion demands that they should wear garments manufactured in India only and eat food only grown in India, decline to wear any other clothing or eat any other food.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“Yiddish”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“pestilentially”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“If there is any substance in what I have said, will not the great missionary bodies of India, to whom she owes a deep debt of gratitude for what they have done and are doing, do still better and serve the spirit of Christianity better by dropping the goal of proselytising while continuing their philanthropic work?”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“preparing to practise to the best of my ability. It encourages me to observe that last month you devoted a week to prayer”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“It is not possible to deny of a nation that was capable of producing the caste system its wonderful power of organisation.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“Well, India is a country of nonsense. It is nonsensical to parch one's throat with thirst when a kindly Mahomedan is ready to offer pure water to drink. And yet thousands of Hindus would rather die of thirst than drink water from a Mahomedan household.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“But India cannot live for Lancashire or any other country before she is able to live for herself. And she can live for herself only if she produces and is helped to produce everything for her requirements within her own borders.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“We were greedy and so was England. The connection between England and India was based clearly upon an error.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“And no scheme of self-government, however benevolently or generously it may be bestowed upon us, will ever make us a self-governing nation, if we have no respect for the languages our mothers speak.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“But English had to yield before Boer patriotism.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“The Jews of Middle and Eastern Europe, who are scattered in all parts of the world, finding it necessary to have a common tongue for mutual intercourse, have raised Yiddish to the status of a language, and have succeeded in translating into Yiddish the best books to be found in the world's literature.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“My patriotism is both exclusive and inclusive. It is exclusive in the sense that in all humility I confine my attention to the land of my birth, but it is inclusive in the sense that my service is not of a competitive or antagonistic nature. Sic utere tuo ut alienum non la is not merely a legal maxim, but it is a grand doctrine of life. It is the key to a proper practice of Ahimsa or love. It is for you, the custodians of a great faith, to set the fashion and show, by your preaching, sanctified by practice, that patriotism based on hatred "killeth" and that patriotism based on love "giveth life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“The motive will determine the quality of the act.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“But India cannot live for Lancashire or any other country before she is able to live for herself. And she can live for herself only if she produces and is helped to produce everything for her requirements within her own borders. She need not be, she ought not to be, drawn into the vertex of mad and ruinous competition which breeds fratricide, jealousy and many other evils. But who is to stop her great millionaires from entering into the world competition?”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“I have not the power adequately to describe them without committing a breach of the laws of decent speech.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“The credit system has encircled this beautiful globe of ours like a serpent's coil, and if we do not mind, it bids fair to crush us out of breath.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways

“I believe that our copying of the European dress is a sign of our degradation, humiliation and our weakness, and that we are committing a national sin in discarding a dress which is best suited to the Indian climate and which, for its simplicity, art and cheapness, is not to be beaten on the face of the earth and which answers hygienic requirements. Had it not been for a false pride and equally false notions of prestige, Englishmen here would long ago have adopted the Indian costume.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Third class in Indian railways