Top 100 Quotes About Gandhi
#1. On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.
Albert Einstein
#2. From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
Gary Hamel
#3. The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
#4. I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.
Arthur L. Herman
#5. Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. We are all the product of our minds and why Gandhi said ... Become the change we want to see. Because if we don't change our minds for the better ... we will never see the changes in humanity.
Timothy Pina
#7. Ty could start an argument with Gandhi if he put his mind to it.
Abigail Roux
#8. The same year that Ghalib died in Delhi, 1869, there was born in Porbandar in Gujarat a boy called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. It would be with the political movements headed by Gandhi, rather than those represented by Zafar, or indeed by Lord Canning, that the future of India would lie.
William Dalrymple
#9. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. -Mahatma Gandhi
Kenneth Eade
#10. One of the things about Steve Jobs is that he gives us an opportunity to look at the disjuncture between that world and the world he claimed that Apple represented, the "Think different" world of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and Gandhi.
Alex Gibney
#11. I have found this myself, in my study of Hindu and Buddhist writing, especially of Gandhi. But I have also found it in the writings of the very first Friends,
Rex Ambler
#12. Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)
Albert Einstein
#13. Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ.
Neem Karoli Baba
#14. Well, India is a country of nonsense. M. K. Gandhi
V.S. Naipaul
#15. Joe Lelyveld told me just now that Gandhi and Mussolini
Actually met. What an extraordinary thought.
Frederick Seidel
#16. Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.
- by Mohandas K. Gandhi -
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. - Gandhi
Zak Ebrahim
#18. Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#19. Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#20. A congeries of motives prevents us from blowing up our spinning mills and reviving the distaff. Gandhi had a try at this sort of revolution: he was as simple-minded as a child trying to empty the sea on to the sand with the aid of a tea-cup.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#21. And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests
disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.
David Sedaris
#22. I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.
Paul Farmer
#23. There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically...
S. Nassir Ghaemi
#25. The capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning - Mahatma Gandhi
Jay Crownover
#27. An individual is never greater than a nation, Nana. But Gandhi has started considering himself greater than the nation.
Nathuram Vinayak Godse
#28. That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. ... If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemy's best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero.
Gene Sharp
#29. When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
Ben Kingsley
#30. Gandhi sacrificed India for his own fame and recognition. Without Gandhi, there would have been a different India; a very masculine one.
M.F. Moonzajer
#31. I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.
Ho Chi Minh
#32. Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples.
Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.
Cesar Chavez
#33. Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.
Frederick Lenz
#34. 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.
David Douglas Duncan
#36. Mind you, you don't get albums written about really good people like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, do you? Good people's places in Heaven may be assured, but nobody's going to have a chart-topping album full of songs about someone's good deeds.
Mitch Winehouse
#37. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.
Kevin Martin
#38. Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it, because nobody else will.
I tend to agree with the first part.
Will Fetters
#39. Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.
Nicholson Baker
#40. India is the land of Buddha and Gandhi. Equal respect for all religions must be in the DNA of every Indian.
Narendra Modi
#41. There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.
Pankaj Mishra
#42. I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
Robert Frost
#43. Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down.
Mother Teresa
#44. And if I look at my icebox, there's no way I'm sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don't have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it's a pretty liberal icebox. It's all in there.
Sylvester Stallone
#45. I have found in the world of film many movies including Beyond Rangoon, The Crow, Gandhi, Doctor Zhivago, and The Big Blue, a French film, convey similar understandings. I'm sure the list is endless. These are just a few of my favorites.
Frederick Lenz
#46. The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
A. J. Jacobs
#47. Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.
Marianne Williamson
#48. in the sentiment of Mahatma Gandhi, when we practice the law of an eye for an eye, we all end up blind.
Desmond Tutu
#49. Abdul knew this Gandhi as the one who cared for poor people, who liked Muslims as well as Hindus, who took on the British and made India free.
Katherine Boo
#50. I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.
Madonna
#51. A small portion of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes are enshrined at the Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Temple in Pacific Palisades. They are the only portion of Gandhi's remains that are kept anywhere outside of India.
James Frey
#52. One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.
Satish Kumar
#53. If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.
Justin Timberlake
#54. A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. With a stranglehold of authority it banned the statement for its reproduction or publication in part or in full. The motive on the part of the Government was obvious. It did not want Gandhi to be exposed to the public. The
Anup SarDesai
#56. Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.
Ricky Martin
#57. I used to think only people like Mother Teresa and Gandhi had a mission in life. We all have one. How do you find it? You listen to your life.
All those dead-end jobs? There's no such thing. In God's economy, nothing is ever wasted. The dots all connect in time.
Regina Brett
#58. I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.
Coretta Scott King
#60. Men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, ..from the reader's choice about MK Gandhi and his works for the regeneration of human kind.
N.a.
#61. I would love to take a cooking class from Gandhi. Maybe I could teach him how to cook, and he could teach me his message. I wouldn't mind learning how to make couscous from scratch from a North African woman, either.
Marcus Samuelsson
#62. The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.
Eduardo Galeano
#63. You've read Gandhi-ji? He said that the two worst classes of human beings are doctors and lawyers. Lawyers because they prolong fights and doctors because they cure the symptoms, not the cause. Doctors don't eliminate disease--they perpetuate the existence of doctors.
Karan Mahajan
#64. When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he famously replied that "it would be a very good idea.
Yanis Varoufakis
#65. Gandhi, who went to Wendy's and asked, Where's the belief? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#66. On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, I salute every individual who honors the core values of his legacy, making him proud of humanity.
Widad Akreyi
#67. Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
Pankaj Mishra
#68. I would kind of, you know, go stand next to some unlucky guy and say eventually, Hi, I'm George. You know, I'm with The New Yorker. I'm a liberal. I'm somewhat left of Gandhi. Do you want to talk? And, you know, they always did.
George Saunders
#69. 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.
Paul Hawken
#70. M. Gandhi is reported to have said: "There go my people. I must find out where they are going, so I can lead them."[a.]
John Gall
#71. I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#72. What if you died, and you found out that when you died, we all went to the same place. No Heaven, no Hell, doesn't matter what you did in life - you all go to the same place, regardless. I know a lot of nice people who will be really pissed off. You'll see Gandhi arguing with the doorman.
Dana Gould
#73. Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?
Barbara Deming
#74. I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.
Pankaj Mishra
#75. I know my limitations. I live and work according to my limitations. And my party only two weeks ago has clearly declared that the leader of the party after Ms Sonia Gandhi will be Mr Rahul Gandhi. And all of us, including me, have expressed our solid support to Mr Rahul Gandhi.
P. Chidambaram
#76. She'd always talk about how great Gandhi was. I'd tell her the only reason Gandhi survived after his first protest was that he was dealing with the Brits. If Stalin had been running India, he'd of been dead in a second, his name forgotten.
William R. Forstchen
#77. In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
Pranab Mukherjee
#78. I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.
Edward James Olmos
#79. The trouble is, we think we have time.
Gandhi
Lea Darragh
#80. By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'
Joseph Lelyveld
#81. All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.
Henri Nouwen
#82. When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.
Richard Attenborough
#83. Ask Gandhi, and eye for an eye makes us both blind ... ask an engineer, and the numbers don't lie - the first to strike wins.
Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
#84. In life, purpose is defined by the thing that makes you angry. Martin Luther was angry; Mandela was angry; Mahatma Gandhi was angry; Mother Teresa was angry. If you are not angry, you do not have a ministry yet.
Myles Munroe
#85. And so it's interesting to remember that when Mahatma Gandhi, the father of an earlier freedom movement, came to England and was asked what he thought of English civilization, he replied: 'I think it would be a good idea.
Salman Rushdie
#86. I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#87. We have nothing. We solace ourselves with the great men of our tribe, the Gandhi and the Nehru, and we castrate ourselves. 'Here, take my manhood and invest it for me. Take my manhood and be a greater man yourself, for my sake!
V.S. Naipaul
#88. It was time for her to finally get that all of that sanctimonious drivel is just the opiate of the masses. Ha, even I was educated enough to know that quote. From Gandhi.
Jutta Profijt
#89. Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.
Tom Shadyac
#90. Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.
Lewis B. Smedes
#91. Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
#92. Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.
Leymah Gbowee
#93. Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi - the pracharak versus the prince, the 'outsider' versus the 'insider', the meritocrat versus the dynast, the small-town tea boy versus the child of elite privilege.
Rajdeep Sardesai
#94. Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.
Cesar Chavez
#95. From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.
Guy Spier
#96. Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#97. What do the Gandhi-caps in Delhi know about the Punjab? What is happening on the other side in Pakistan does not matter to them. They have not lost their homes and belongings; they haven't had their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters raped and murdered in the streets.
Khushwant Singh
#98. President Obama compared himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the struggle to bring about change. The comparison is flawed. They spent years in jail before taking political power, while politicians from Chicago do it the other way around.
Argus Hamilton
#99. Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. They entered the profession full of hope and vigor, determined to make a difference, to heed Gandhi and be the change they wanted to see in the world.
Tabitha Suzuma
