Indira Gandhi Quotes - Page 6

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• If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home.

  Indira Gandhi

  Home, Feet, Offering

  Source: sangam.org

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India no one dies of hunger any more; food production far exceeds consumption.

  Indira Gandhi

  India, Today, Succeed

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

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• I want to state that there will be friendship between Bangladesh and ourselves. And not a one-sided friendship, of course - no one does anything for nothing; each has something to give and something to take.

  Indira Gandhi

  Giving, Doe, Want

  Source: sangam.org

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• If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

  Indira Gandhi

  Fear, Dying, Assassins

  Indira Gandhi, Pupul Jayakar (1986). “What I am”

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• A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with tremendous intuition for people, and a great instinct for what was right.

  Indira Gandhi

  Intelligent, Men, People

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• It would seem that it was not in the interest of 'someone' for us to make progress. It was in 'someone's' interest that we be always at war, that we tear each other to pieces. Yes, I'm inclined to absolve the Pakistanis. How should they have behaved? Someone encouraged them to attack us, someone gave them weapons to attack us. And they attacked us.

  Indira Gandhi

  War, Progress, Tears

  Source: sangam.org

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• You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

  Indira Gandhi

  People, Democracy, Dying

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

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• 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

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• I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Men, Eight

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

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• At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Morning, Brother

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

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• I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.

  Indira Gandhi

  People, India, Waste

  Source: sangam.org

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• I was a welfare worker for the Indian Council for Child Welfare. I'll tell you a story. Rajiv was only four years old at that time, and was going to kindergarten. One day the mother of one of his little friends came to see us and said in a sugary voice, 'Oh, it must be so sad for you to have no time to spend with your little boy!' Rajiv roared like a lion: 'My mother spends more time with me than you spend with your little boy, see! Your little boy says you always leave him alone so you can play bridge!' I detest women who do nothing and they play bridge.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Children, Boys

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

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• Mahatma Gandhi was always talking of religion...He was convinced that was right...The fact is, we young people didn't agree with him on many things.

  Indira Gandhi

  Talking, People, Facts

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Naturally, if the Americans had fired a shot, if the Seventh Fleet had done something more than sit there in the Bay of Bengal...yes, the Third World War would have exploded. But, in all honesty, not even that fear occurred to me.

  Indira Gandhi

  Honesty, War, Done

  Source: sangam.org

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• To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

  Indira Gandhi

  Crazy, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: sangam.org

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• When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

  Indira Gandhi

  Worry, Difficult, Mines

  Source: sangam.org

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• By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.

  Indira Gandhi

  Germany, Forget, Socialism

  Source: sangam.org

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• I certainly won't have an empty life!

  Indira Gandhi

  Empty Life, Empty

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

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• I suggested a compromise to give the banks a year's time and see if they succeed in showing us that nationalization wasn't necessary. The year went by and we realized it hadn't done any good, that the money still ended up in the hands of the rich industrialists or friends of the bankers. So I concluded that it was necessary to nationalize the banks. And we did. Without considering it a socialist gesture or an antisocialist gesture, just a necessary one. Anyone who nationalizes only so as to be considered on the left to me is a fool.

  Indira Gandhi

  Hands, Years, Giving

  Source: sangam.org

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