Indira Gandhi asked her father, leader Jawaharlal Nehru:
What happens in war?
Her father replied: Education and the economy are collapsing.
She said: What happens after the collapse of education and the economy?
Her father replied: Morals are collapsing.
She said: What else happens if morals collapse!?
He responded to her with the utmost wisdom: What keeps you in a country whose morals have collapsed?
A person can coexist in any society that has some nutritional, economic, and recreational shortages.
Except for the lack of morals, and the reason is: meanness and villainy prevail, customs, laws, and goodness disappear, and everything turns into a forest, and thus a decent life becomes almost impossible!
— From Indira Gandhi's memoirs