Quote

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

Indira Gandhi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
Former Prime Minister Of India
Politician
Writer
Prayag
Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
Advanced
Afford
Developing
Question
Nations
Help
Whether
Helping

More quotes by Indira Gandhi

Image
I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.
Indira Gandhi
Image
Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.
Indira Gandhi
Image
In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.
Indira Gandhi
Image
[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
Image
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.
Indira Gandhi
Image
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
Indira Gandhi
Image
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
Image
Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.
Indira Gandhi
Image
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
Indira Gandhi
Image
We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.
Indira Gandhi
Image
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
Indira Gandhi
Image
It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.
Indira Gandhi
Image
Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today it's outdated.
Indira Gandhi
Image
When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.
Indira Gandhi
Image
Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.
Indira Gandhi
Image
Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.
Indira Gandhi
Image
I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.
Indira Gandhi
Image
The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
Indira Gandhi
Image
There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.
Indira Gandhi
Image
By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.
Indira Gandhi