Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHIOpportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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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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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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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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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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