Indira Gandhi Quotes - Page 3

There is not love where there is no will.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.

My father was a saint. I'm not.

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.

In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

The struggle for independence here has been conducted in equal measure by men and by women. And when we got our independence, no one forgot that. In the Western world, on the other hand, nothing of the kind has ever happened - women have participated, yes, but revolutions have always been made by men alone.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.