I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
INDIRA GANDHIFor me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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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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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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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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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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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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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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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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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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