The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
INDIRA GANDHIMy grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Difficulties can’t be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them. The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It’s all right to fight, yes, but only when it’s possible.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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