There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
INDIRA GANDHIThere exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
INDIRA GANDHII learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHIMy theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
INDIRA GANDHITo be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
INDIRA GANDHIThe meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
INDIRA GANDHIHow can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHIWhen it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHIWhen I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
INDIRA GANDHINothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
INDIRA GANDHIOne must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
INDIRA GANDHIEvery democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHIThe 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 GANDHII’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
INDIRA GANDHIAs 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 GANDHIWe always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
INDIRA GANDHITo become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
INDIRA GANDHI