The next time you travel on London Underground, Mahatma Gandhi's famous quote, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" may catch your attention among the service announcements.

Not only Gandhi, quotations by Sartre, Einstein and other great thinkers will be interspersed between the service announcements as a part of a novel initiative by London transport authorities to make travelling on the Underground enjoyable.

Transport for London (TfL), the company responsible for the Underground, has commissioned award-winning artist Jeremy Deller to compile a list of quotations by Gandhi and others that can be mixed with the driver's announcements.

The initiative will soon be rolled out on the Piccadilly Line, and trials have already elicited enthusiastic response from passengers.

Driver Susy Wells told BBC during a trial: "This job can be a bit monotonous sometimes, so it's brilliant and the passengers do love it." 

Some passengers, however, were not comfortable with being compelled to listen to words of wisdom from great thinkers while rushing to work.

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