Quotes About Gandhi

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.

You have to remember that although Gandhi and Churchill only met physically once, their paths crossed again and crossed again all over the globe, from London and South Africa and India and back to London. In fact, I discovered that during the Boer War in 1899 they literally passed yards from each other on the battlefield.

We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We're awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela.

Gandhi's insistence that personal change and the ability to bring about social change are linked. He warns that it is no use striving to implement principles such as nonviolence or justice in public affairs so long as one neglects them in one's personal life. And it is wise to begin in small and piecemeal ways.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

Truth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'!

The last time I met Sir Richard Attenborough was while dubbing for Gandhi in Mumbai. My interaction with him was short and sweet but definitely a memorable experience.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

I could have joined politics during Nehru's or Indira Gandhi's time. I don't want to. I stay away from these things.

As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.

Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself.