Gandhi 1982

Judge Broomfield: [At Gandhis 1922 trial] It is impossible for me to ignore that youre in a different category from any person I have tried or am likely ever to try. Nevertheless, it is my duty to sentence you to six years in prison. If however His Majestys government should at a later date see fit to reduce the term... no one will be better pleased than I.

— Gandhi 1982 men

Margaret Bourke-White: So you really are going to Pakistan then? You are a stubborn man.Gandhi: Im simply going to prove to Hindus here and Muslims there that the only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts. And that is where all our battles ought to be fought.Margaret Bourke-White: So what kind of warrior have you been in that warfare?Gandhi: Not a very good one. Thats why I have so much tolerance for the other scoundrels of the world.

— Gandhi 1982 war

Vince Walker: Whatever moral ascendancy the West once held was lost here today. India is free, for she has taken all that steel and cruelty can give and she has neither cringed nor retreated.

— Gandhi 1982 hate

Kasturba Gandhi: I say with Gandhiji: There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

— Gandhi 1982 happiness

Kinnoch: With respect, Mr. Gandhi, without British administration, this country would be reduced to chaos.Gandhi: Mr. Kinnoch, I beg you to accept that there is no people on Earth who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power.Brigadier: My dear sir! India *is* British. Were hardly an alien power![silence]

— Gandhi 1982 art

Gandhi: An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

— Gandhi 1982 world

Nahari: Im going to Hell! I killed a child! I smashed his head against a wall.Gandhi: Why?Nahari: Because they killed my son! The Muslims killed my son![indicates boys height]Gandhi: I know a way out of Hell. Find a child, a child whose mother and father have been killed and raise him as your own.[indicates same height]Gandhi: Only be sure that he is a Muslim and that you raise him as one.

— Gandhi 1982 hell

Gandhi: They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. NOT MY OBEDIENCE!

— Gandhi 1982 body

Gandhi: Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always.

— Gandhi 1982 love

Gandhi: I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you.

— Gandhi 1982 christian

Nehru: Bapuji, the whole country is moving.Gandhi: Yes. but in what direction?

— Gandhi 1982 country

Soldier: Mr. Gandhi, sir. I have been instructed to inquire the subject of your speech tonight.Gandhi: The value of goats milk in daily diet. But you can be sure that I will also speak against war.

— Gandhi 1982 war

Gandhi: I want to change their minds. Not kill them for weaknesses we all possess.

— Gandhi 1982 change

Gandhi: Poverty is the worst form of violence.

— Gandhi 1982 poverty

Gandhi: We think it is time that you recognized that you are masters in someone elses home. Despite the best intentions of the best of you, you must, in the nature of things, humiliate us to control us. General Dyer is but an extreme example of the principle... it is time you left.

— Gandhi 1982 time

Brigadier: You dont think were just going to walk out of India!Gandhi: Yes. In the end, you will walk out. Because 100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate.

— Gandhi 1982 men

Gandhi: There are no goodbyes for us, Charlie. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.

— Gandhi 1982 art

Gandhi: [in South Africa] You mean you can appoint Mr. Baker as your attorney but you cant walk down the street with him?Kahn: Well, I can, but I risk being kicked into the gutter by someone less holy than Mr. Baker.

— Gandhi 1982 you

Conductor: [stopping Gandhi on the train in South Africa] What are you doing in here, coolie?Gandhi: I reserved this car. I have a ticket.Conductor: How did you get hold of it?Gandhi: I sent for it by post. I am an attorney.European Passenger: An attorney! There are no colored attorneys in South Africa - move your black ass into third class where it belongs!Porter: Ill take your luggage, sir...Gandhi: No, wait.[he takes out his card and shows it]Gandhi: You see? Mohandas K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law. I am on my way to Pretoria to conduct a case...European Passenger: Didnt you hear me? There are no colored attorneys in South Africa!Gandhi: Sir, I was called to the bar in London, and enrolled in the High Court of Chancery. I am therefore an attorney. And since I am, in your eyes, colored, I think we can deduce that there is at least one colored attorney in South Africa.

— Gandhi 1982 sin

Gandhi: I want to welcome you all. Every one of you. We have no secrets. Let us begin by being clear... about General Smuts new law. All Indians must now be fingerprinted... like criminals. Men and women. No marriage other than a Christian marriage is considered valid. Under this act our wives and mothers are whores. And every man here is a bastard.Kahn: He has become quite good at this.Gandhi: And a policeman passing an Indian dwelling, I will not call them homes, may enter and demand the card of any Indian woman whose dwelling it is.

— Gandhi 1982 women

Gandhi: We must defy the British... Not with violence that will inflame their will but with a firmness that will open their eyes. English factories make the cloth that makes our poverty. All those who wish to make the English see bring me the cloth from Manchester and Leeds that you wear today and we will light a fire that will be seen in Delhi, and in London!

— Gandhi 1982 light

Gandhi: You intend to walk all the way?Vince Walker: Its the only way I can get the story. Besides, my name *is* Walker.

— Gandhi 1982 story

Lord Irwin, Viceroy: Mr. Gandhi will find that it takes a great deal more than a pinch of salt to bring down the British Empire.

— Gandhi 1982 will

Margaret Bourke-White: Do you really believe you could use non-violence against someone like Hitler?Gandhi: [thinks] Not without defeats, and great pain. But are there no defeats in war? No pain? What you cannot do is accept injustice. From Hitler, or anyone. You must make the injustice visible, and be prepared to die like a soldier to do so.

— Gandhi 1982 war

Margaret Bourke-White: [interviewing Ba in prison] Is it hard, being separated this way?Kasturba Gandhi: Yes. But we see each other in the day.Margaret Bourke-White: But not at night?Kasturba Gandhi: In Hindu philosophy the way to God is to free yourself of possessions, and the passions that inflame anger and jealousy. Bapu has always struggled to find the way to God.Margaret Bourke-White: You mean he gave up... married life?Kasturba Gandhi: Four times he tried, and failed. But then he took a solemn vow.Margaret Bourke-White: And he has never broken it?Kasturba Gandhi: Not yet.

— Gandhi 1982 life

Margaret Bourke-White: [to Gandhi] Youre the only man I know who makes his own clothes.

— Gandhi 1982 man

Nehru: Think of what you can do by living, that you cannot do by dying... What do you want?Gandhi: That the fighting will stop. That you make me believe it will never start again.

— Gandhi 1982 art

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