There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
INDIRA GANDHIPeople with clenched fists can not shake hands.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
-
-
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
INDIRA GANDHI -
There is not love where there is no will.
INDIRA GANDHI -
It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
INDIRA GANDHI -
It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
INDIRA GANDHI -
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHI -
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 -
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
INDIRA GANDHI -
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHI -
To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
INDIRA GANDHI -
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 -
Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
INDIRA GANDHI -
It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
INDIRA GANDHI -
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
INDIRA GANDHI -
In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
INDIRA GANDHI -
As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
INDIRA GANDHI