Quotes
(Movies)
Gandhi
Charlie Andrews: "That was lucky."
Gandhi: "I thought you were a man of God."
Charlie
Andrews: "I am, but I'm not so egotistical as to
think He plans His day around my dilemmas."
It's always the simple things that catch your
breath.
There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
The word (ashram) only means community. But it could stand
for "village" or "the world".
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me.
Then, they will have my dead body. Not my obedience.
You go and find a pretty Hindu woman and covert her to
Christianity. That's as much mischief as you're allowed.
I try to live like an Indian, as you see. It's stupid, of
course. Because in our country, it is the British who decide
how an Indian lives, what he may buy, what he may sell. And
from their luxury, in the midst of our terrible poverty,
they instruct us on what is justice, what is sedition. So,
it's only natural that our best young minds assume an air of
Eastern dignity while greedily assimilating every Western
weakness as quickly as they can acquire it.
Terrorism would only justify their repression. And what kind
of leaders would it throw up? Are they likely to be the men
we'd want at the head of our country?
We think it is time you recognized that you are masters in
someone else's home. ... It is time you left.
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.
All nations contain religious minorities. Like other
countries, ours will have its problems. But they will be
ours... not yours.
The Anti-terrorist Act will remain on the statutes but on
account is Gandhi to be arrested. Whatever mischief he
causes, I have no intention of making a martyr of him.
Nehru: "This was one incident."
Gandhi: "Tell that to the families of the policemen who
died."
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way
of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants
and murderers and, for a time, they can seem invincible. But
in the end, they always fail.
Mr. Gandhi will find it takes a great deal more than a pinch
of salt to bring down the British Empire.
Whatever moral ascendancy the West held was lost here today.
