Why I Assassinated Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

“An individual is never greater than a nation, Nana. But Gandhi has started considering himself greater than the nation.”
― Nathuram Vinayak Godse, Why I Assassinated Mahatma Gandhi

“A Satyagrahi can never fail' was his formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew what a Satyagrahi is. Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and jury in his own cause. These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupled with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character made Gandhi formidable and irresistible.”
― Nathuram Vinayak Godse, Why I killed Gandhi

“Lord Mountbatten came to be described in Congress circles as the greatest Viceroy and Governor-General this country ever had. The official date for handing over power was fixed for June 30, 1948, but Mountbatten with his ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisected India ten months in advance. This is what Gandhi had achieved after thirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congress party calls 'freedom' and 'peaceful transfer of power'. The Hindu-Muslim unity bubble was finally burst and a theocratic state was established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they have called 'freedom won by them with sacrifice' - whose sacrifice? When top leaders of Congress, with the consent of Gandhi, divided and tore the country - which we consider a deity of worship - my mind was filled with direful anger.”
― Nathuram Vinayak Godse, Why I killed Gandhi

“In fact, honour, duty and love of one's own kith and kin and country might often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force.”
― Nathuram Vinayak Godse, Why I killed Gandhi

“My confidence about the moral side of my action has not been shaken even by the criticism levelled against it on all sides. I have no doubt that honest writers of history will weigh my act and find the true value thereof some day in future.”
― Nathuram Vinayak Godse, Why I killed Gandhi

“In condemning history’s towering warriors like Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots, Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit.”
― Nathuram Godse, Why I Killed Gandhi

“whimsicality”
― Nathuram Godse, Why I Killed Gandhi

“phenomenal”
― Nathuram Godse, Why I Killed Gandhi

“Everybody in India knows that there is no language called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary. It is a mere dialect, it is spoken, but not written. It is a bastard tongue and cross-breed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the Mahatma’s sophistry could make it popular.”
― Nathuram Godse, Why I Killed Gandhi

“But when he finally returned to India he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was to be the final judge of what was right or wrong.”
― Nathuram Godse, Why I Killed Gandhi

“But above all I studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar and Gandhiji had written and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed more to the moulding of the thought and action of the Indian people during the last thirty years or so, than any other single factor has done.”
― Nathuram Godse, Why I Killed Gandhi