David Douglas Duncan Quotes

In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for.

It is nauseating to see Mr.[Mohandas K.] Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the King Emperor.

I am a big believer in Gandhi-ji. I really like him.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

Why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?

How shall we remember Mahatma Gandhi, that eternal pilgrim of freedom? Born of the very spirit of India, steeped in the tradition, the song, the legend of our ancient land - and yet he was revolutionary. Unique among revolutionaries, he marched for freedom, clad in the robe of truth, with non-violence for his staff.

Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

I am simply just one monk. That's all.

I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse.

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

I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi. He galvanized millions to march as one, disarmed the empire that had ruled his country for nearly a century, and enabled India to become a free and independent nation.

I'm not a guy who's about the material things.

I have no desire to advise the Gandhi family.

Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.