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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.

Indira Gandhi

That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
INDIRA GANDHI

Action Necessary Philosophy
In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
INDIRA GANDHI

Community Understand Yourself
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
INDIRA GANDHI

Desire Function Politics
It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
INDIRA GANDHI

Cure Injustice Story
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Future Scare
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Achievement Beginning Dream End Thinking Yourself
Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
INDIRA GANDHI

Brave One Liner Virtue
You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
INDIRA GANDHI

Country Defeat Democracy Military
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
INDIRA GANDHI

Born Control
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
INDIRA GANDHI

Game Politics
My father was a saint. I’m not.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Saint
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Mom Perfection
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
INDIRA GANDHI

Experiences Greatness Maturity Vision
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right
Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
INDIRA GANDHI

Deep Forget Silence
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Mother Personality

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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