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.
INDIRA GANDHIWithout 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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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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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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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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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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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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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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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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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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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