Indira Gandhi Quotes

I love observing people.

Men do very little from love, a great deal from hate, most of all from indifference.

I love being the mayor of a city that is not defined by the hate filled act of a killer, but is defined by the way we respond: The Love and Compassion and Unity.

As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.

We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

We never know the issues others may be facing, and it isn't up to us to judge actions and behavior.

It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we do away with him altogether.

I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?

We almost always forgive those we understand.

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.