“Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.”

“I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.”

“As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.”

“I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!”

“Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.”

“In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.”

“What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.”

“We are anthill men upon an anthill world.”