Statesman

I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

Ada dua jenis manusia : mereka yang bekerja dan mereka yang memilih berhutang. Jadilah manusia yang pertama karena saingannya sedikit.

Kekuatan untuk mempertanyakan adalah landasan dari semua kemajuan manusia.

We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

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.

I am frequently attacked.

Kakek saya pernah mengatakan kepada saya bahwa ada dua macam orang: orang-orang yang melakukan pekerjaan dan mereka yang mengambil kredit. Dia mengatakan kepada saya untuk mencoba untuk berada di kelompok pertama; ada kompetisi jauh lebih sedikit.

Memaafkan adalah suatu kebajikan yang berani.

Kau tak bisa berjabat tangan dengan tangan terkepal.

Kita telah meyakini bahwa kebebasan itu tidak bisa dibagi, perdamaian itu tidak bisa dibagi, dan kemakmuran ekonomi itu juga tidak dapat dibagi.

The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.