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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

Indira Gandhi

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHI

Democracy River Women
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
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
INDIRA GANDHI

Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help
When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHI

Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
INDIRA GANDHI

Beginning Deep End Reality
I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
INDIRA GANDHI

Children Understand Victim Woman
Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
INDIRA GANDHI

Brave One Liner Virtue
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Easy Myself Time
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHI

Courage Opportunity Perseverance
There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
INDIRA GANDHI

Contentment Happiness Moments
in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
INDIRA GANDHI

Country Independent Philosophy World
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 GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset
For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
INDIRA GANDHI

Change Poverty
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHI

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

Difficult Future Scare

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