Indira Gandhi Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Indira Gandhi

  Reality, Risk, Victory

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• I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Men, Eight

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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• I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.

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  Caring, People, Want

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• I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I read about her, but I recall that she immediately took on a definite importance for me. I wanted to sacrifice my life for my country. It seems like foolishness and yet...what happens when we're children is engraved forever on our lives.

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  Country, Children, Sacrifice

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• What we do now, on the other hand...Don't think that I'm crazy about this kind of politics. It's no accident that I've done everything to keep my sons out of it, and so far I've succeeded. After independence I retired immediately from politics.

  Indira Gandhi

  Crazy, Son, Thinking

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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• The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers.

  Indira Gandhi

  Hermano

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• With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

  Indira Gandhi

  Boys, Race, Envy

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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• I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

  Indira Gandhi

  People, Stupidity, Excited

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• If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

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  Religiosos, Malos, Hombres

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• It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

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  Law, Laws Of Life, Checks

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• The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Pain, Drama

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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• [Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.

  Indira Gandhi

  Girl, Class System, President

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• As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

  Indira Gandhi

  Jobs, Done, Adults

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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• I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.

  Indira Gandhi

  Hijos, Padre, Pensamiento

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• I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

  Indira Gandhi

  Talking, Honor, Tempted

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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• We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.

  Indira Gandhi

  Strong, Husband, Thinking

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• En un momento dado, la familia se trasladó a Jaipur, donde ninguna mujer podía evitar el doli o purdah. La tenían en casa de la mañana a la noche, cocinando o sin hacer nada. [Mi madre] odiaba no hacer nada, odiaba cocinar. Así que se puso pálida y enferma, y lejos de preocuparse por su salud, mi abuelo dijo: "¿Quién se va a casar con ella ahora?". Así que mi abuela esperó a que mi abuelo saliera, vistió a mi madre de hombre y la dejó salir a cabalgar con sus hermanos.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Morning, Brother

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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• If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mean, Contentment, Ordinary

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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• I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to live in Pakistan, but the propaganda was that there they'd have greater opportunities and so they left. Many Hindus, on the other hand, didn't want to stay in Pakistan, but they had ties there or property and so they stayed.

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  Opportunity, Hands, Ties

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• I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

  Indira Gandhi

  Should Have, Chinese, Enemy

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• My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Men, Saint

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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• I'm not ambitious. Not a bit.

  Indira Gandhi

  Ambitious, Bits

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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• I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

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  War, World, Danger

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• They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

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  Technology, Rights, Poverty

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• Encontrabas un tío por un lado y un sobrino por otro, un primo por aquí y otro por allá. Además sigue siendo cierto hoy en día. Te diré algo más. Hubo un tiempo en que incluso dos embajadores en Suiza, el de India y el de Pakistán, eran dos hermanos de sangre. ¡Oh, la Partición que nos impusieron los británicos fue tan antinatural!

  Indira Gandhi

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

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