Indira Gandhi Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.

  Indira Gandhi

  Philosophy, Party, Yield

  Indira Gandhi (1977). “Education, individual, and society: selected addresses”

• In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.

  Indira Gandhi

  Party, Moving, People

  Source: sangam.org

• 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

• All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride that surprised even me. Then even the political parties, all of them, even the deputies in Parliament, said no: it's better to die of hunger than be taken for a nation of beggars.

  Indira Gandhi

  Wall, Party, Taken

  Source: sangam.org

• 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.

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