3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

Literacy in itself is no education.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.