All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
INDIRA GANDHII don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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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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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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I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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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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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
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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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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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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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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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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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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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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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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.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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