Quotes About Gandhi

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas. Vintage: New York, 2002

He who devotes himself" M. K. Gandhi. Non-Violent Resistance Satyagraha. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 2001

M. K. Gandhi. Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 1983

Eknath Easwaran. Gandhi the Man. Nilgiri Press: Novales, California, 1997

Louis Fischer. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World. Signet Classics: New York, 2010

It's a wonderful phrase. Gandhi's meaning was simple: Only the human being who acts in a way that is empty of self can be the instrument of Soul Force. And it is only Soul Force that can establish a harmonious world. Human beings alone are helpless to resolve conflicts without it.

But ahimsa is more than just the absence of violence: It is the presence of justice and of love. Gandhi always made it perfectly clear that "the satyagrahi's object is to convert, not to coerce, the wrongdoer.

I like the concept of 'Make in India'. But the orientation of 'Make in India' is slightly different than what I would. So, the orientation of Make in India is big business, and a lot of it is defence. My orientation of 'Make in India' would be small and medium businesses.

I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.

Martin Luther King and Gandhi were not people who failed in self-respect. They were people of hope and great courage, and their courage was disciplined.

Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [...] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.

He renamed India's untouchables harijan, "God's people," and raised them to human stature. And in doing so he provided the nonviolent strategy as well as the inspiration for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s comparable civil rights movement in the United States. Gandhi

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

Gandhi once said, 'When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not any ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me… Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meaning from it every day.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?' Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been married three years.' No wonder Gandhi turned out to be a great man. When you get your love life nailed down that early, think of all the time it frees up to devote to Great Ideas.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Theatre has given me lot of opportunities such as directing monologues in 'Saat Teri Ekvees.'

Even at a distance of decades, people invoking Gandhi's name still evade the hard questions raised by Godse in his speech.

the conservative Ulema opposed the Pakistan project (because they aimed at controlling the whole rather than a part of India) but supported most other communal demands of the League, thus strengthening further the communal outlook which underlay the Pakistan demand. Welcomed by the Congress as 'nationalist Muslims', they helped Gandhi and Nehru in suppressing all articulate Hindu voices in the Congress.

Unfortunately, though both Mahatma Gandhi and Narendra Modi hail from Gujarat, Gandhi never lied, and Modi never speaks the truth.

If you come from a family like Gandhi family, people have high expectations. He needed to perform. I wish Rahul could have more attendance, participated more, and believed in democracy, in the parliamentary system. He speaks more outside, less in Parliament.