Indira Gandhi Quotes

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

Indira Gandhi

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• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • School
  • High
  • Brother

• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • True
  • Nature
  • Death

• I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

  

  Florence King
  • Home
  • Rather
  • My Own

• Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Political
  • Change

• I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Spring
  • Intelligence
  • Back

• Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Question

• All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Great
  • May
  • Imagination

• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Silent

• I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Entrepreneur
  • Intriguing

• To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power

• I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

  

  Armand Hammer
  • Time
  • Way
  • Direction

• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Small
  • Goals

• I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Religious
  • Phenomena
  • Doubted

• It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Becoming
  • Intention
  • Liars

• He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Judgment
  • Mercy

• I have tried to be impartial. I have also tried to render judgment on events and not on particular individuals. But in adjudging the Revolution, I could do no less than pass judgment on the man who did not recoil from crime in order to embody the Revolution in himself from beginning to end.

  

  Apolinario Mabini
  • Revolution
  • Judgment
  • Events

• If the Canadian parliament, say, should declare that in light of evolving social mores, triangles should be regarded as sometimes having four sides, and decree also that anyone who expresses disagreement with this judgment shall be deemed guilty of discriminatory hate speech against four-sided triangles, none of this would change the geometrical facts in the least, but merely cast doubt on the sanity of Canadian parliamentarians.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Guilty
  • Judgment
  • Parliament

• The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Judgment
  • Collective