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In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.
One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.
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.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.
If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.
Have 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.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.
That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.
