Indira Gandhi Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Fighting, Overcoming

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Independent, World

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

• Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Matter, Treaties

  Source: sangam.org

• When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Children, Oxford

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Ideas, Doctrine

  Indira Gandhi (1971). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of challenge, January 1966-August 1969”

• When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, India, Complexes

  Source: sangam.org

• America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, America, Stronger

  Source: sangam.org

• It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Decision, Aids

  Source: sangam.org

• Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Irritation, Mountain

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Military, Democracy

  Source: sangam.org

• You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Errors, Democracy

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• Even under the British there were hostile groups. There were clashes. But, as we found out later, these were clashes provoked by those who had no wish to let us live together - on the eve of the Partition. The policy of keeping us divided was always followed by foreigners, even after the Partition. If Indians and Pakistanis had been together...I don't say as confederated countries but as neighboring and friendly countries...like Italy and France, for example ...believe me, both of us would have progressed much further.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Believe, Wish

  Source: sangam.org

• Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Believe, Years

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and vice versa. They've never said, for instance, that my party has been fighting this attitude ever since we have maintained that religious hostilities are wrong and absurd, that minorities cannot be eliminated from a country, that people of different religions must live together.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Religious, Attitude

  Source: sangam.org

• I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I read about her, but I recall that she immediately took on a definite importance for me. I wanted to sacrifice my life for my country. It seems like foolishness and yet...what happens when we're children is engraved forever on our lives.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Children, Sacrifice

• What does nonalignment mean? It means we don't belong to any military bloc and that we reserve the right to be friends with any country, independently of the influence of any country. All this has remained unchanged after the signing of the Indo-Soviet treaty, and others can say or think what they like - our policy won't change because of the Soviet Union.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Military, Mean

  Source: sangam.org

• The India I want, I'll never tire of repeating, is a more just and less poor India, one entirely free of foreign influences. If I thought the country was already marching toward these objectives, I'd give up politics immediately and retire as prime minister.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Giving Up, Want

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Free Country

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

• However, the treaty exists and it puts us in a different position toward the Soviet Union than the one we have toward other countries. Yes, the treaty exists. Nor does it exist on only one side. Look how w3e're situated geographically and you'll see that India is very important for the Soviet Union.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Important, India

  Source: sangam.org

• When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Children, Care

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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