My father was a saint. I’m not.
INDIRA GANDHIin today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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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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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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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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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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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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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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