“We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.” MenShouldInspirePersonalityIdealsPrivilegeRejoiceMournRadiant Book:Indira Gandhi speaks on democracy, socialism, and Third World nonalignment Source: Indira Gandhi speaks on democracy, socialism, and Third World nonalignment
“Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.” ThinkingShouldLife IsDanger Author:Indira Gandhi
“I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.” IfsThinkingShouldWellsSeemsRiskDanger Author:Indira Gandhi
“You say this victory is dangerous. I say that today no one can yet tell if it's dangerous, that today I don't see the risks you mention. If, however, those risks should become reality...I'll act in accordance with the new reality.” IfsShouldRealityTodayRiskDangerousVictory Author:Indira Gandhi
“I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.” ShouldEnemyShould HaveChinese Author:Indira Gandhi
“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.” ShouldWarSeemsInterestPiecesProgressTearsWeapons Author:Indira Gandhi
“How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!” PeopleWorldShouldDifferentProblemModernGoes OnConcernedKillingModern WorldKilling Each Other Author:Indira Gandhi
“Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.” PeopleShouldExistenceOughtMassIndiaFollowingAcceptedDestroyedPakistanMadmen Author:Indira Gandhi
“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.” PeopleShouldYearsLongTodayWantedPoorCitiesPovertyTenMountainAspectYears AgoIndiaAssumingForestsTribesBetter Off Author:Indira Gandhi
“You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen that something was happening. Not much, but something.” ShouldHappeningsShould HaveGenerousWesterners Author:Indira Gandhi
“In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.” ShouldMayChildrenIdeasPastLiteratureGivenWishBlessingLowsShould HaveIndiaStressPopulationEpic Author:Indira Gandhi
“I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.” PeopleWantShouldYearsHeartChildrenIdeasMy HeartShould HaveRootedMistaken Author:Indira Gandhi
“We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.” WorldShouldChildrenCareSufferingTakenRightsProtectInalienable RightsProtecting Children Author:Indira Gandhi
“Maybe I would have considered the problem if I'd met someone with whom I'd have liked to live. But I never met this someone and... No, even if I had met him, I'm sure I wouldn't have got married again. Why should I get married now that my life is so full? No, no, it's out of the question.” IfsShouldProblemLife IsMetsMarriedShould I Author:Indira Gandhi
“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.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingWellsChildrenFatherChallengesPartyKnownLeaderClearOne DayShould HaveArguingCriticizeAlways Arguing Author:Indira Gandhi
