List of Indira Gandhi Quotes

There Are Moments In History When Brooding Tragedy And Its Dark Shadows Can Be Lightened By Recalling Great Moments Of The Past.

I Would Like To Ask A Question. Would This Sort Of War Or Savage Bombing Which Has Taken Place In Vietnam Have Been Tolerated For So Long, Had The People Been European?

India Wants To Avoid A War At All Costs But It Is Not A One-sided Affair, You Cannot Shake Hands With A Clenched Fist.

It Has Been My Experience That People Who Are At Cross-purposes With Nature Are Cynical About Mankind And Ill At Ease With Themselves.

We Should Not Mourn For Men Of High Ideals. Rather We Should Rejoice That We Had The Privilege Of Having Had Them With Us, To Inspire Us By Their Radiant Personalities.

[my Mother] Was The Oldest Of Two Sisters And Two Brothers, And She Grew Up With Her Brothers, Who Were About Her Age. She Grew Up, To The Age Of Ten, Like A Wild Colt, And Then All Of A Sudden That Was Over. They Had Forced On Her Her 'woman's Destiny' By Saying, 'this Isn't Done, This Isn't Good, This Isn't Worthy Of A Lady.'

Still, In International Matters, The Treaty Changes Nothing. That Is, It Doesn't Prevent Us From Being Friends With Other Countries, Which Indeed We Are.

If You Only Knew, For Instance, How Much I Enjoy Being A Grandmother! Do You Know I'm Twice A Grandmother? Rajiv And Sonia Have Had A Boy And A Girl.

I Examine The Consequences Later, When A New Situation Arises And I Then Face The New Situation. And That's It.

Do You Know That, Until Recently, Poor People Brought Children Into The World For The Sole Purpose Of Making Use Of Them? But How Can You Change, By Force Or All Of A Sudden, An Age-old Habit? The Only Way Is To Plan Births, By One Means Or Another.

A Revolution Is Already Taking Place In India. Things Are Changing Here Already - Peacefully And Democratically. There's No Danger Of Communism. There Would Be If We Had A Rightist Government Instead Of Mine.

For Me It's Absolutely The Same - I Treat One And The Other In Exactly The Same Way. As Persons, That Is, Not As Men And Women. But, Even Here, You Have To Consider The Fact That I've Had A Very Special Education, That I'm The Daughter Of A Man Like My Father And A Woman Like My Mother.