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 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 GANDHIThe sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
INDIRA GANDHILife is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
INDIRA GANDHILife is a continuous process of adjustment.
INDIRA GANDHII don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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 GANDHIA nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
INDIRA GANDHIThe fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
INDIRA GANDHIEducation 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 GANDHIForgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
INDIRA GANDHIOpportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHIPopularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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 GANDHIMartyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
INDIRA GANDHII fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHINever forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
INDIRA GANDHI