Mohandas K. Gandhi quotes from Gandhi (1982)

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.

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

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

We think it is time that you recognized that you are masters in someone else's 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.

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

If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Oh God.

Nehru

Bapuji, the whole country is moving.

Yes. but in what direction?

Nahari

I'm going to Hell! I killed a child! I smashed his head against a wall.

Why?

Nahari

Because they killed my son! The Muslims killed my son!

I know a way out of Hell. Find a child, a child whose mother and father was killed and raise him as your own. Only be sure that he is a Muslim and that you raise him as one.

Kinnoch

With respect, Mr. Gandhi, without British administration, this country would be reduced to chaos.

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.

My dear sir! India is British. We're hardly an alien power!

You're a temptress.

Margaret Bourke-White

Just an admirer!

Nothing is more dangerous, especially for an old man.

Vince Walker

You're an ambitious man, Mr. Gandhi.

I hope not.

You mean you can appoint Mr. Baker as your attorney but you can't walk down the street with him?

Well, I can, but I risk being kicked into the gutter by someone less holy than Mr. Baker.