Aug 20, 2023, 08:57 AM IST

10 inspirational quotes by Rajiv Gandhi

Sonali Sharma

Sadbhavna Diwas is a day that is observed on 20 August, every year in India. Sadbhavna Diwas was established to honor the former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary.

Here are 10 Inspirational quotes by India’s former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi

Better a brain drain than a brain in the drain.

It is the compartmentalization of India into rigidly separated rural and urban settlements that has been the worst legacy of the colonial system of local-self government.

India missed the Industrial Revolution; it cannot afford to miss the Computer Revolution.

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them fell away.

I didn’t have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics – after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants – I think our goal has to be to eliminate poverty from India.

There has to be a national consensus. We cannot legislate without overwhelming national consensus that religious and communal groups should be totally banned from politics.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together.