As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it. Indira Gandhi More Quotes by Indira Gandhi More Quotes From Indira Gandhi Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated. Indira Gandhi twenties world years When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything. Indira Gandhi complexes india country I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India. Indira Gandhi waste india people If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious. Indira Gandhi religious men mean You say this victory is dangerous. I say that today no one can yet tell if it's dangerous, that today I don't see the risks you mention. If, however, those risks should become reality...I'll act in accordance with the new reality. Indira Gandhi victory risk reality [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.' Indira Gandhi destiny brother mother At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers. Indira Gandhi brother mother morning Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented; each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women. Indira Gandhi rights names people 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. Indira Gandhi wall party taken This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far? Indira Gandhi ive-learned vote giving I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies. Indira Gandhi chinese should-have enemy 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. Indira Gandhi daughter mother father When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack. Indira Gandhi hard war looks I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to live in Pakistan, but the propaganda was that there they'd have greater opportunities and so they left. Many Hindus, on the other hand, didn't want to stay in Pakistan, but they had ties there or property and so they stayed. Indira Gandhi ties opportunity hands We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us. Indira Gandhi inevitable I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities. Indira Gandhi excited stupidity people 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. Indira Gandhi temples praying mean I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality. Indira Gandhi ambitious ambition reality 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. Indira Gandhi old-habits mean children In India you don't find propaganda against Pakistan. During the war there was a little of it, naturally, but even during the war we were able to control it. In fact the Pakistanis were astonished by this. There were prisoners in the camp hospitals who exclaimed, 'What? You're a Hindu doctor and you want to cure me?' Indira Gandhi doctors india war
