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Famous Indira Gandhi Quotes
“People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.”
“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
“My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.”
“All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.”
“Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.”
“The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.”
“The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.”
“The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.”
“To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.”
“what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.”
“Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.”
“Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.”
“Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.”
“Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.”
“I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.”
“Ability is not always gauged by examination.”
“I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.”
“I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.”