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.
INDIRA GANDHII’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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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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My 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.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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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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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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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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