Indira Gandhi Quotes - Page 8

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• Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

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  Peace, War, Ignorance

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

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• I had recently had the impression they were changing - not so much by becoming less pro-Pakistan as by becoming less anti-India. I was wrong. My visit to [Richard] Nixon did anything but avert the war.

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  War, India, Pakistan

  Source: sangam.org

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• Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.

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  War, Army, People

  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.

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  Mother, Children, Boys

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

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• The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be fatal. If they hadn't said that to me, maybe I wouldn't have got married. But that diagnosis provoked me, it infuriated me. I answered, 'Why do you think I'm getting married if not to have children? I don't want to hear that I can't have children; I want you to tell me what I have to do in order to have children!'

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  Children, Pregnancy, Thinking

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

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• 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.

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  Father, Home, Hands

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• 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.

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• Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.

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  Struggle, Energy, India

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• I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.

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  Mood, Shows, Know How

  Source: sangam.org

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• ... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people.

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  People, Support, Intellectual

  Indira Gandhi (1985). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: January 1980-December 1981”

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

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  Party, Moving, People

  Source: sangam.org

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• I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.

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  India, Pakistan, Favors

  Source: sangam.org

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• 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.

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  Mother, Father, House

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• 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.

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  Mother, Sex, Uncles

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

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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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• Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.

  Indira Gandhi

  Years, Cities, Long

  Source: sangam.org

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• 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.

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• Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

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  Jobs, Village, Prime

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

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

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  Father, Helping, Suspects

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• 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.

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  Country, Important, India

  Source: sangam.org

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• All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.

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  Pursuit Of Happiness, People, Liberty

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

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• I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly; it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.

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  Pride, Thinking, Giving

  Source: sangam.org

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• [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to be friends with us? We've wanted to be friends with him for some time; I've always wanted to.

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  Mean, Men, Doe

  Source: sangam.org

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• We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That influx of refugees wouldn't have stopped - on the contrary. It would have gone on and on and on, until there would have been an explosion. We were no longer able to control the arrival of those people, in our own interest we had to stop it! That's what I said to Mr.[Richard] Nixon, to all the other leaders I visited in an attempt to avert the war.

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  War, Long, People

  Source: sangam.org

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• 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.

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  Country, Giving Up, Want

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

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