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 GANDHIwhat is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
-
-
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
INDIRA GANDHI -
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
INDIRA GANDHI -
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHI -
Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
INDIRA GANDHI -
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
INDIRA GANDHI -
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 -
The 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 GANDHI -
Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
INDIRA GANDHI -
There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
INDIRA GANDHI -
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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 -
I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
INDIRA GANDHI -
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
INDIRA GANDHI -
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
INDIRA GANDHI -
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
INDIRA GANDHI