You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi More Quotes by Indira Gandhi More Quotes From Indira Gandhi The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence. Indira Gandhi affluence birth birth-control Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances. Indira Gandhi cutting age class 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. Indira Gandhi yield party philosophy I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well. Indira Gandhi wells falling-in-love trying Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river. Indira Gandhi women rivers water I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried. Indira Gandhi party father children My father was a saint. I'm not. Indira Gandhi saint father For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty. Indira Gandhi poverty india years 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. Indira Gandhi fighting rights mother Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life. Indira Gandhi upset victim play As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers. Indira Gandhi mind father ideas One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris. Indira Gandhi one-day girl thinking I learned very soon to get along by myself. Indira Gandhi Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful. Indira Gandhi doctrine country ideas India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population. Indira Gandhi independent war people That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action. Indira Gandhi consequence action philosophy My theory is that men are no more liberated than women. Indira Gandhi liberated theory men As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves. Indira Gandhi nations i-believe believe My husband lived in Lucknow. My father lived in Delhi, of course. So I shuttled between Delhi and Lucknow and...naturally, if my husband needed me on days when I was in Delhi, I ran back to Lucknow. But if it was my father who needed me, on the days when I was in Lucknow. And...yes, my husband got angry. And he quarreled. We quarreled. We quarreled a lot. It's true. Indira Gandhi delhi husband father How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist? Indira Gandhi nations
