Gandhi (film) Quotes

Gandhi (film) is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Gandhi stopped airing in 1970.

It features Richard Attenborough as producer, Ravi Shankar; George Fenton in charge of musical score, and Billy Williams; Ronnie Taylor as head of cinematography.

Gandhi (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom, and India. Each episode of Gandhi (film) is 191 minutes long. Gandhi (film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Ben Kingsley as Gandhi, Om Puri as Nahari, Roshan Seth as Nehru, Edward Fox as Soldier, Edward Fox as Brigadier, Martin Sheen as Vince Walker, Candice Bergen as Margaret Bourke-White, Rohini Hattangadi as Kasturba Gandhi, Nigel Hawthorne as Kinnoch, Dilsher Singh as Kahn, Geraldine James as Mirabehn, Trevor Howard as Judge Broomfield, and Richard Griffiths as Collins.

Gandhi (film) Quotes

Candice Bergen as Margaret Bourke-White

• (Candice Bergen) "There's a sadness about him."
• (Geraldine James) "He thinks he's failed."
• (Candice Bergen) "Why? If anything's proven him right, it's these last months."
• (Geraldine James) "I may be blinded by my love for him. But I believe, when we most needed it, he offered the world a way out of madness. But he doesn't see it. Neither does the world."

• (Candice Bergen) "Do you really believe you could use non-violence against someone like Hitler?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "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."

• (Candice Bergen) "Is it hard, being separated this way?"
• (Rohini Hattangadi) "Yes. But we see each other in the day."
• (Candice Bergen) "But not at night?"
• (Rohini Hattangadi) "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."
• (Candice Bergen) "You mean he gave up -- married life?"
• (Rohini Hattangadi) "Four times he tried, and failed. But then he took a solemn vow."
• (Candice Bergen) "And he has never broken it?"
• (Rohini Hattangadi) "Not yet."

• (Candice Bergen) "You're the only man I know who makes his own clothes."

Roshan Seth as Nehru

• (Roshan Seth) "He told the press he'd support the British in the war."
• (Prakash) "That's non-violence for you."

• (Roshan Seth) "Think of what you can do by living, that you cannot do by dying -- What do you want?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "That the fighting will stop. That you make me believe it will never start again."

• (Roshan Seth) "Bapuji, the whole country is moving."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Yes. but in what direction?"

Ben Kingsley as Gandhi

• (Ben Kingsley) "Poverty is the worst form of violence."

• (Ben Kingsley) "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."
• (Dilsher Singh) "He has become quite good at this."
• (Ben Kingsley) "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."

• (Ben Kingsley) "There are no goodbyes for us, Charlie. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."

• (Ben Kingsley) "Where there's injustice, I always believed in fighting. The question is, do you fight to change things or to punish? For myself, I've found we're all such sinners, we should leave punishment to God. And if we really want to change things, there are better things than derailing trains or slashing someone with a sword."

• (Ben Kingsley) "I have friends who keep telling me how much it costs them to keep me in poverty."

• (Ben Kingsley) "I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you."

• (Ben Kingsley) "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."

• (Ben Kingsley) "Oh God. Oh God. Oh God."

• (Ben Kingsley) "You're a temptress."
• (Candice Bergen) "Just an admirer."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Nothing is more dangerous, especially for an old man."

• (Ben Kingsley) "If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."

• (Ben Kingsley) "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."

• (Ben Kingsley) "I've traveled so far. And all I've done is come back -- home."
• (Martin Sheen) "Now, wait a minute. You know what you're going to do, don't you?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "It would have been very uncivil of me to let you make such a long trip for nothing."

• (Unnamed) "Bapu. Bapu. Bapu, please don't do it."
• (Ben Kingsley) "What do you want me not to do? Not to meet with Mr. Jinnah? I am a Muslim, and a Hindu, and a Christian, and a Jew, and so are all of you. When you wave those flags and shout, you send fear into the hearts of your brothers. That is not the India I want. Stop it. For God's sake stop it."

• (Ben Kingsley) "You mean you can appoint Mr. Baker as your attorney but you can't walk down the street with him?"
• (Dilsher Singh) "Well, I can, but I risk being kicked into the gutter by someone less holy than Mr. Baker."

• (Ben Kingsley) "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."

• (Ben Kingsley) "No Indian must be treated as the English treat us. We must remove untouchability from our hearts and from our lives."

• (Ben Kingsley) "They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. NOT MY OBEDIENCE."

• (Ben Kingsley) "I want to change their minds. Not kill them for weaknesses we all possess."

• (Conductor) "What are you doing in here, coolie?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "I reserved this car. I have a ticket."
• (Conductor) "How did you get hold of it?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "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) "I'll take your luggage, sir --"
• (Ben Kingsley) "No, wait."
• (Ben Kingsley) "You see? 'Mohandas K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law.' I am on my way to Pretoria to conduct a case --"
• (European Passenger) "Didn't you hear me? There are no colored attorneys in South Africa."
• (Ben Kingsley) "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."

• (Ben Kingsley) "I, for one, have never advocated passive anything. We must never sumbit to such laws. And I think our resistance must be active and provocative."

• (Ben Kingsley) "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

• (Ben Kingsley) "You'll find there's room for all of us here."

Rohini Hattangadi as Kasturba Gandhi

• (Rohini Hattangadi) "I say with Gandhiji: There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness."

• (Rohini Hattangadi) "Sora was sent to tell me I must rake and cover the latrine."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Everyone takes his turn."
• (Rohini Hattangadi) "It is the work of untouchables."
• (Ben Kingsley) "In this place, no work is beneath us."
• (Rohini Hattangadi) "I am your wife."
• (Ben Kingsley) "All the more reason."

Martin Sheen as Vince Walker

• (Martin Sheen) "I met him once."
• (Richard Griffiths) "You mean Gandhi?"
• (Martin Sheen) "Yeah, in South Africa, a long time ago. I wonder if he'll recognize me."
• (Richard Griffiths) "What was he like?"
• (Martin Sheen) "He had a full head of hair then. We were a bit like college students, trying to figure everything out."
• (Richard Griffiths) "Well, he must have found some of the answers."

• (Martin Sheen) "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."

• (Martin Sheen) "You're an ambitious man, Mr. Gandhi."
• (Ben Kingsley) "I hope not."

Edward Fox as Brigadier

• (Edward Fox) "You don't think we're just going to walk out of India."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Yes. In the end, you will walk out. Because 100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate."

• (Edward Fox) "Mr. Gandhi, sir. I have been instructed to inquire the subject of your speech tonight."
• (Ben Kingsley) "The value of goat's milk in daily diet. But you can be sure that I will also speak against war."

Trevor Howard as Judge Broomfield

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Nigel Hawthorne as Kinnoch

• (Nigel Hawthorne) "With respect, Mr. Gandhi, without British administration, this country would be reduced to chaos."
• (Ben Kingsley) "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."
• (Edward Fox) "My dear sir. India is British. We're hardly an alien power."

Om Puri as Nahari

• (Om Puri) "I'm going to Hell. I killed a child. I smashed his head against a wall."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Why?"
• (Om Puri) "Because they killed my son. The Muslims killed my son."
• (Ben Kingsley) "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."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Only be sure that he is a Muslim and that you raise him as one."

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