Indira Gandhi Quotes
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You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.
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My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.
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My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker.
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I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.
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The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.
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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
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[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.
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I certainly won't have an empty life!
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Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.
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The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.
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The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.
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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.
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I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.
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I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being a woman a great disadvantage. She had her reasons. In her day women lived in seclusion - in almost all Indian states they couldn't even show themselves on the street.
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I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly; it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.
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No one ever indoctrinated me.
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All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride that surprised even me. Then even the political parties, all of them, even the deputies in Parliament, said no: it's better to die of hunger than be taken for a nation of beggars.
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When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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Indira Gandhi
- Born: November 19, 1917
- Died: October 31, 1984
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of India
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