The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
INDIRA GANDHINever forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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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.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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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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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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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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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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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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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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.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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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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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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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 am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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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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