Indira Gandhi Quotes

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

I support population control. I think USA should do the same.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

Freedom to breed Is intolerable…. People vary. Confronted with appeals to limit breeding, some people will undoubtedly respond to the plea more than others. Those who have more children will produce a larger fraction of the next generation than those with more susceptible consciences. The differences will be accentuated, generation by generation.

Whoever is not physically or mentally fit must not pass on his defects to his children. The state must take care that only the fit produce children. Conversely, it must be regarded as reprehensible to withhold healthy children from the state.

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two... We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anemic.

One of the conveniences in life is to have less children.

It's about time we make welfare contingent upon birth control.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply the population.

When the wages of labour are hardly sufficient to maintain two children, a man marries and has five or six.

The comforts and well-being of the poor cannot be permanently secured without some regard on their part, or some effort on the part of the legislature, to regulate the increase of their numbers, and to render less frequent among them early and improvident marriages.

It is clearly useless to preach the limitation of the family and to conceal the means whereby such limitation may be effected.

Children when irregularly produced are a cause of great inconvenience.

The problem of burgeoning population can be addressed if we begin with women itself. And, we need to educate them and spread awareness about birth control and family planning through TV channels and newspapers.

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters. For example, no one may lawfully have more than one spouse at a time. Why should the law not be able to prevent a person from having more than two children?

No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.

You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I'd do is get [female recipients] Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.