Sonia Gandhi Quotes

During Congress rule terrorism was countered effectively and firmly, whereas during the BJP regime terrorists were treated like guests and released in their own country. ~ Sonia Gandhi

I know my limitations. I live and work according to my limitations. And my party only two weeks ago has clearly declared that the leader of the party after Ms Sonia Gandhi will be Mr Rahul Gandhi. And all of us, including me, have expressed our solid support to Mr Rahul Gandhi. ~ P. Chidambaram

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad. ~ Sonia Gandhi

Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us. ~ Sonia Gandhi

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do. ~ Sonia Gandhi

They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India. ~ Kate Clinton

I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed. ~ Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the reasons we look at India with a lot of sympathy and enthusiasm is Sonia Gandhi. Now she is Indian, not Italian, but she will always represent a myth for Italians. ~ Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

The future of each of us is inter-connected and all of us should work together by following the path laid down by former leaders of the party for the development of the country and its brighter future. ~ Sonia Gandhi

To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually Sarvodaya or the rise of all. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself. ~ Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi and her son play an important part in all of this. Their job is to run the Department of Compassion and Charisma and to win elections. They are allowed to make (and also to take credit for) decisions which appear progressive but are actually tactical and symbolic, meant to take the edge off popular anger and allow the big ship to keep on rolling. (The best example of this is the rally that was organised for Rahul Gandhi to claim victory for the cancellation of Vedanta's permission to mine Niyamgiri for bauxite - a battle that the Dongria Kondh tribe and a coalition of activists, local as well as international, have been fighting for years. At the rally, Rahul Gandhi announced that he was "a soldier for the tribal people". He didn't mention that the economic policies of his party are predicated on the mass displacement of tribal people. Or that every other bauxite "giri" - hill - in the neighbourhood was having the hell mined out of it, while this "soldier for the tribal people" looked away. Rahul Gandhi may be a decent man. But for him to go around talking about the two Indias - the "Rich India" and the "Poor India" - as though the party he represents has nothing to do with it, is an insult to everybody's intelligence, including his own.)

The division of labour between politicians who have a mass base and win elections, and those who actually run the country but either do not need to (judges and bureaucrats) or have been freed of the constraint of winn ~ Arundhati Roy

The biggest challenge at the national level is to defeat communal forces for which the support of the Left parties was essential but the party is opposed to the Left in Kerala because UDF's aim is to ensure economic development and social harmony. ~ Sonia Gandhi

It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. ~ Sonia Gandhi

Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important role not only in cure of physical ailments, but also for moral and spiritual progress. ~ Virchand Gandhi

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Polak and I had often very heated discussions about the desirability or otherwise of giving the children an English education. It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talk in English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They deprive them of the spiritual and social heritage of the nation, and render them to that extent unfit for the service of the country. Having these convictions, I made a point of always talking to my children in Gujarati. Polak never liked this. He thought I was spoiling their future. He contended, with all the vigour and love at his command, that, if children were to learn a universal language like English from their infancy, they would easily gain considerable advantage over others in the race of life. He failed to convince me. I do not now remember whether I convinced him of the correctness of my attitude, or whether he gave me up as too obstinate. This happened about twenty years ago, and my convictions have only deepened with experience. Though my sons have suffered for want of full literary education, the kn ~ Mahatma Gandhi

That matchless remedy (for self realisation) is renunciation of fruits of action. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

I decided with this new awareness to dedicate my day to moving at my own natural, calm pace, and not pressuring myself to get going, get moving, or hurry up at all, something quite different from what I otherwise did. ~ Sonia Choquette

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Every day of life is an adventure. Don't fear to dare and never forget to enjoy it. ~ Debasish Mridha

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)] ~ Mahatma Gandhi

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Being useful should be in our blood.If not than we must work hard to own it. ~ Sonia Bria

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations.
My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The best politics is right action. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

There is no god greater than truth. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she'll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay? ~ Sonia Sotomayor

Death is not our destiny. Longing for true love is our true destiny. That is where we will find the ultimate meaning of life. ~ Debasish Mridha

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

What lies ahead of you & what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

But I could not for the life of me find out a new name, and therefore offered a nominal prize through Indian Opinion to the reader who made the best suggestion on the subject. As a result Maganlal Gandhi coined the word Sadagraha (Sat: truth, Agraha: firmness) and won the prize. But in order to make it clearer I changed the word to Satyagraha which has since become current in Gujarati as a designation for the struggle. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don't hide within it. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

The credit system has encircled this beautiful globe of ours like a serpent's coil, and if we do not mind, it bids fair to crush us out of breath. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

To a man with an empty stomach food is God ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi noted: Be the change that you wish to see most in your world. ~ Robin S. Sharma

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

There are as many different religions as there are individuals. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth. ~ Mahatma Gandhi