The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
INDIRA GANDHIThere exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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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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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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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.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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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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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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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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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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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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