Quotes About Gandhi

If you go on the Internet and type in 'Lee Ryan one liners,' I think I'm on par with Gandhi.

From this humiliating self-estimate (of cowardice) Gandhi escaped by substituting for the Englishman's courage, which begins in self-assertion and proceeds to physical mastery, the courage which begins with self-control and proceeds to the nonviolent affirmation of truth.

Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.

The most enchanting experience I had in Ahmedabad when I visited the Gandhi Ashram. I was moved by the information on Indian freedom struggle and there is a sense of tranquility and peace at this Ashram that moved me.

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

I am a big believer in Gandhi-ji. I really like him.

The magnitude of the film and the life of Gandhi had not yet sunk in then as it is now when I look back.

A non-existent revolutionary plot was crushed by the Raj. Punjab, including Amritsar and Lahore, returned to 'normal'. And Gandhi halted his satyagraha. But the Empire's reputation was in tatters.

If it came to a fight with the Empire—Gandhi had smelt that possibility—he wanted Indians to hold the moral high ground, yielding which had been part of the folly of 1857.

Playing the Mahatma at the start of my career has made a difference in my life as I had read a lot about him at that point of time. I still read a lot on him. His opinion about life and politics has affected a lot of persons, including me.

I like to play Gandhi, but I've got tired of it, though not bored of it. I have to go through the physicality of losing weight.

For the Gandhi family, U.P. elections have always been a big picnic.

Churchill could not become Gandhi's idol, for the premier did not accept Indians as equals or as being worthy of independence

massive incorporation of religion into the subcontinent's political life that occurred via imperial hands: the separate Muslim electorate.

If the price of peace on India's streets was capitulation to the Empire and its threats, Gandhi was not willing to pay that price.

Khaliquzzaman suggests that if Jinnah had responded positively to Gandhi in 1944, a peaceful separation might indeed have replaced the 1947 tragedy.

India's passivity over time, and its dislike of clash, offends the Swami. Though admitting that Gandhi broke with that tradition—recognizing that Gandhi was neither passive nor afraid of a clash

Gandhi was a great man but he failed to understand two things: the value of the sword, and the danger from Islam.

In his speeches on Azad Hind Radio, Subhas Bose referred to Gandhi as the 'Father of the Nation'. This seems to be the first time Gandhi was called this. The usage soon became ubiquitous.

While economics played a role, so did individuals, and one individual in particular. The official history underestimated the personal charisma of Mohandas K. Gandhi. His name, and his methods, fired the popular imagination. It was he who conceived of and led the campaign against the Rowlatt Act, he who conceived and led non-cooperation, he, who, by making common cause with the Muslims on the Khilafat, brought India's two major communities together against the Raj.

The Kingsford–Maitland view of Christianity appealed to Gandhi because it asked not for exaltation of a personal Saviour, but fidelity to one's conscience.

Gandhi's fast unto death to keep the Depressed Classes in the Hindu fold was to begin at 12 noon on 20 September 1932.

Haste and teleology – these twin temptations – do injustice to both man and place. As social reformer, popular leader, political thinker and family man, Gandhi was fundamentally shaped by his South African experience. In turn, he had a profound impact on the history of that continent, with his ideas and attitudes influencing later struggles against racism.