Indira Gandhi Quotes.
The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
We 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.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
I’ve never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people’s problems.
On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty – on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.
I am frequently attacked.
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
I think basically I’m lazy, but I have a housewife’s mentality when I go about my job.
I am not a person to be pressured – by anybody or any nation.
