It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
INDIRA GANDHIThe immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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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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The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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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.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
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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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