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Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.
I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
We used to fight with Pakistan with bombs. Now we are fighting with them on the playing ground.
I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means.
I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
I am often accused of colluding with the British during the freedom struggle. I want to ask, how?
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.
That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.
I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.
Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.
Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.
We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.
in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.
The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.
The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.
I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.
Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.
I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!
Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong - in every sense of the term.
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
I think what Punjab needs today is vigorous economic development and rebuilding of trust and social cohesion.