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 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 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 GANDHIYou soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
INDIRA GANDHII refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
INDIRA GANDHIOne must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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 GANDHILife is a continuous process of adjustment.
INDIRA GANDHIThe meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
INDIRA GANDHIRebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
INDIRA GANDHII was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
INDIRA GANDHII 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 GANDHIYou must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHIIt’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 GANDHIWhen it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHIWe would rather starve than sell our national honor.
INDIRA GANDHIThe future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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