Indira Gandhi Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Cancer, People

  Source: sangam.org

• I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Source: sangam.org

• My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Political, Saint

  "Indira's Coup". The New York Review of Books, September 18, 1975.

• People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, People, Justice

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

• Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

  Indira Gandhi

  Beautiful, Father, Goal

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

• 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

  Mother, Father, Personality

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

• I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Father, Party

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

• My father was a saint. I'm not.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Saint

  "Indira's Coup". The New York Review of Books, September 18, 1975.

• My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Pride, Boys

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

• People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, People, Prime

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

• My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Men, Saint

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

• When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Helping, Suspects

• I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Father, Thinking

• My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Home, Hands

• 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 Gandhi

  Father, Ideas, Mind

  Source: sangam.org

• I began to associate with Mahatma Gandhi when he came and went in our house - together with my father and mother he was on the executive committee. After independence I worked with him a lot - in the period when there were the troubles between Hindus and Muslims, he assigned me to take care of the Muslims. To protect them.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Father, House

• My husband lived in Lucknow. My father lived in Delhi, of course. So I shuttled between Delhi and Lucknow and...naturally, if my husband needed me on days when I was in Delhi, I ran back to Lucknow. But if it was my father who needed me, on the days when I was in Lucknow. And...yes, my husband got angry. And he quarreled. We quarreled. We quarreled a lot. It's true.

  Indira Gandhi

  Husband, Father, Delhi

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

• For me it's absolutely the same - I treat one and the other in exactly the same way. As persons, that is, not as men and women. But, even here, you have to consider the fact that I've had a very special education, that I'm the daughter of a man like my father and a woman like my mother.

  Indira Gandhi

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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

• Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Men, Understanding

• Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.

  Indira Gandhi

  Girl, Children, Husband

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

• Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts, my cousings of both sexes. So ever so often the police came and took them away, indiscriminately. Well, the fact that they arrested both my father and mother, both my grandfather and grandmother, both an uncle and an aunt, made me accustomed to looking on men and women with the same eyes, on an absolute plane of equality.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Sex, Uncles

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

• No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.

  Indira Gandhi

  Daughter, Father, People

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

• I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Thinking, Careers

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

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