When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHIEven if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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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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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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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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As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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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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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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