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 GANDHIAll my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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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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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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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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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.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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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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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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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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