Indira Gandhi Quotes

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

I don’t think my father was my mentor.

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.

There is not love where there is no will.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty – on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.

I am not a person to be pressured – by anybody or any nation.

We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading… freedom struggles and so on.

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 am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people … 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.

Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.