I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.
The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
Our family's values come from my grandfather's embrace of a Gandhian worldview.
I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.
It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
I'm still the same person I've always been. I can't say exactly what I'll do; I'm an excessive person. Talk about violence-----I don't do anything violent. Talk about violence, what's going on in Nicaragua? What's going on in El Salvador? That's violent. What are they doing to the planet with chemicals and acid rain? That's violent. What are people doing to each other? Raping. That's violent. I'm striking out at ac icon that has no life. There's a big difference between what has life and what doesn't. I mean. I've been a vegetarian for 16 years.
Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.
The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
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.
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.
My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
