A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.