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.
INDIRA GANDHIThat’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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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.
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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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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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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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