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 GANDHIwhat is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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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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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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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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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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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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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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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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