Daily Inspiration Quote by Indira Gandhi

Anger, in Indira Gandhi's framing, is not a lapse into pure irrationality; it is an impulse that arrives already lawyered-up. You can always build a case for outrage. The sting is in the second clause: that case is usually flimsy. Gandhi isn’t moralizing about temper so much as diagnosing a political hazard: emotion will reliably supply its own justification, and that self-justification is precisely what makes it dangerous.

The line works because it acknowledges anger’s seduction. Calling it “never without an argument” grants dignity to the angry person’s inner narrative - the sense of having been wronged, ignored, cornered. But “seldom with a good one” flips the knife. It exposes how quickly argument becomes pretext: a selective brief assembled from grievance, ego, and the need to feel clean in the aftermath of aggression. The syntax is also telling: “argument” in the singular suggests a thin, repeated script rather than a careful weighing of facts.

As a statesman speaking from a century defined by mass movements, insurgencies, partition’s aftershocks, and hard-edged governance, Gandhi’s subtext reads like counsel to leaders and citizens alike: don’t confuse intensity with validity. In politics, anger is renewable fuel; it can mobilize crowds and authorize crackdowns with equal ease. Her caution lands as both personal discipline and public warning: the presence of a rationale is not evidence of reason, only evidence of how quickly humans can dress passion up as principle.