Индира Ганди цитаты

„История — самый лучший учитель, у которого самые плохие ученики.“

„Мой отец был государственным мужем. Я — всего лишь женщина-политик. Мой отец был святым. Я — нет.“

„Мой дед однажды сказал мне, что люди делятся на тех, кто работает, и тех, кто ставит себе в заслугу результаты этой работы. Он советовал мне попасть в первую группу: в ней конкуренция меньше.“

„My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.“

„We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.“

Luther King" http://gos.sbc.edu/g/gandhi2.html"Martin, speech at the presentation of the Jawaharial Nehru Award for International Understanding to Coretta Scott King in New Delhi, India (January 24, 1969). Published in Selected Speeches and Writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-March 1977 (New Delhi : Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1984. pp. 312-313).
Контексте: We admired Dr. King. We felt his loss as our own. The tragedy rekindled memories of the great martyrs of all time who gave their lives so that men might live and grow. We thought of the great men in your own country who fell to the assassin's bullet and of Mahatma Gandhi's martyrdom here in this city, this very month, twenty-one years ago. Such events remain as wounds in the human consciousness, reminding us of battles, yet to be fought and tasks still to be accomplished. We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

„We admired Dr. King. We felt his loss as our own. The tragedy rekindled memories of the great martyrs of all time who gave their lives so that men might live and grow.“

„You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.“

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Вариант: You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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

„Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.“

„You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.“

"The Embattled Woman Who Relishes Crosswords, Children...and Running India," People (June 30, 1975).

„There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.“

Letter to Richard Nixon (December 15, 1971) http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/07/03/stories/2005070300090100.htm.

„I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.“

Источник: Speech, Bhubaneswar, India (October 30, 1984), quoted in "Death in the Garden," by William E. Smith, Time (November 12, 1984) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,926929-3,00.html.

„My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.“

Quoted in "Indira's Coup," profile by Oriana Fallaci, The New York Review of Books (September 18, 1975).

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