Best Gandhi Quotations
133 Gandhi quotes by 110 unique authors
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Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.
— Frederick Lenz
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I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if…
— Donald Miller
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look…
— Jay-Z
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I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance.…
— John Lydon
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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…
— Ricky Martin
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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
— Al Sharpton
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From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson…
— Guy Spier
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God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help…
— Desmond Tutu
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I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.
— Joss Whedon
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Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to be…
— Naomi Wolf
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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…
— David Sedaris
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Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go…
— Vandana Shiva
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I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And…
— Ray Bradbury
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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio…
— Aravind Adiga
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Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
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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,…
— Thomas Merton
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I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his…
— Albert Einstein
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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…
— Karl Pilkington
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On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his…
— Shashi Tharoor
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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…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but…
— Aravind Adiga
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