You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded. Indira Gandhi More Quotes by Indira Gandhi More Quotes From Indira Gandhi The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated. Indira Gandhi ideology mean facts 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. Indira Gandhi democracy dying people 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. Indira Gandhi assassins dying fear The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so. Indira Gandhi nations developing helping In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged. Indira Gandhi anxiety alive firsts We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer. Indira Gandhi taken rights children I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult. Indira Gandhi eight years moving Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end. Indira Gandhi realizing dream thinking You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi leadership friendship life 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. Indira Gandhi struggle men hands I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done. Indira Gandhi indulge-in done jobs Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor. Indira Gandhi rich-or-poor peace people 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. Indira Gandhi cancer father people I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely. Indira Gandhi mother perfect jobs How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different! Indira Gandhi different goes-on people They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion! Indira Gandhi poverty technology rights The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and vice versa. They've never said, for instance, that my party has been fighting this attitude ever since we have maintained that religious hostilities are wrong and absurd, that minorities cannot be eliminated from a country, that people of different religions must live together. Indira Gandhi religious attitude country What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something. Indira Gandhi vacuums have-faith doe Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness. Indira Gandhi point-of-view fleeting views My fiancé, you see, belonged to another religion. He was a Parsi. And this was something nobody could stand - all of India was against us. They wrote to Gandhi, to my fther, to me. Insults, death threats. Every day the postman arrived with an enormous sack and dumped the letters on the floor. We even stopped reading them; we let a couple of friends read them and tell us what was in them. Indira Gandhi india couple reading
