To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
INDIRA GANDHII fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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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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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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Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
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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.
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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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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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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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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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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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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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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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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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