74 Gandhi Quotes for You to Enjoy

Attenborough's 'Gandhi' shook me as a filmmaker. Rajkumar Hirani

Me Shook Gandhi Filmmaker

Rahul Gandhi has promised to remove poverty and unemployment. There is nothing new about the election promises of Congress. Had only half of those promises been fulfilled, India would have been the most prosperous country in the world today. Rajnath Singh

Today World Election Promises Poverty Country Half Remove Nothing Congress Those Promised Would India About Only Had New Prosperous Most Been Unemployment Nothing New Fulfilled Gandhi

In 1971, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi defeated Pakistan, and our leader, A. B. Vajpayee, who was in the Opposition, praised her, and she was credited with the military victory, similarly, why can't Prime Minister Narendra Modi be credited for the Balakot air strike? Rajnath Singh

I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending. Rebecca Makkai

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My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware that I wanted to please him and Ma, so I thought doing something like 'Gandhi' would be phenomenal. Richard Attenborough

'Gandhi' was a well-made film but surely not my best. It had flaws, which I understand two-and-a-half decades after I directed it. I will never call it a propaganda film for the Indian Congress, but it could have been made better had I concentrated on certain minute details. Richard Attenborough

Best Better Will Made Congress Details Indian Minute Propaganda Directed Could Never Had Concentrated Call Surely Understand Been Decades After Which Flaws Certain Gandhi Film

Ben Kingsley was my ideal choice for Gandhi, and he really lived up to the expectations of an international audience. I did not find any Indian actor worthy to perform the role of Gandhi in the early Eighties, though there were brilliant performers like Naseeruddin Shah in India. Richard Attenborough

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There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is the work of untouchables; he tells her there is no such thing. Gandhi's tactics of encouraging brotherly love across caste boundaries and urging Indians to clean their own latrines had failed miserably. Rose George

Work Love Wife Own Says Tells Indians Brotherly Scene Tactics Caste Clean Had He Failed Boundaries She Because His Encouraging Refuses Where Urging Richard Across Gandhi Her Thing

Rajiv Gandhi could have certainly attempted to form a Congress-led coalition government in 1990. Sanjaya Baru

Government Could Attempted Form Coalition Certainly Gandhi

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

Journey Religion Book Outer Pursuing He Read Because Said Passage Isolated Where Social Should Separated Gandhi Beings Inner

This Sonia Gandhi thing should be seen in perspective - the people of India have an emotional attachment to the family. And why not? Three of the five Congress prime ministers belong to that family. The people empathise with the family name. Sharad Pawar

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. Stafford Cripps

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. Stafford Cripps

See, Indira Gandhi was wrong in declaring the Emergency. She tried to put me in jail, but she could not. People voted her back, and I worked with her after that. Even though I was not a member of the Congress, she sought my help on China. You can't have personal vendetta, you see. Subramanian Swamy

Me You People Congress Back Though Member Tried See Emergency Could Put Wrong Vendetta Voted She Sought Personal Jail After China Declaring Worked Help Gandhi Even Her

Rahul Gandhi gets a copy of every programme that has been started by the Centre during Parliamentary procedure, but he has got no time to read. He has got time to go to night clubs. Subramanian Swamy

Time Every Has-Been No Time Parliamentary He Read Got Go Been Gets Procedure Clubs Centre Gandhi Started Copy Night Programme

Ahmed Patel and Sonia Gandhi are not too different political personalities. Subramanian Swamy

Political Too Different Personalities Gandhi

I was a very good friend of Rajiv Gandhi, and I had affection for Sonia as his wife. Subramanian Swamy

Good Wife Affection Had His Friend Very Gandhi Good Friend

Sonia Gandhi is great. She is adorable. Bappi Lahiri

Great Adorable She Gandhi

Gandhi: My Father' is a project very close to our hearts. Akshaye Khanna

Father Our Project Very Close Hearts Gandhi

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