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.
INDIRA GANDHIWithout peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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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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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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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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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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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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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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Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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