Indira Gandhi
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Indira GandhiI do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
Indira GandhiWhere there is love there is life.
Indira GandhiThere is not love where there is no will.
Indira GandhiOne must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
Indira GandhiYou cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira GandhiHave a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Indira GandhiMy father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
Indira GandhiAll my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
Indira GandhiMartyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Indira GandhiPeople tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Indira GandhiWhenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground.
Indira GandhiWe must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira GandhiThere exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
Indira GandhiThe power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi