in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
INDIRA GANDHIMankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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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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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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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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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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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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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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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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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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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.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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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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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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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 me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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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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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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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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