The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
INDIRA GANDHIThere are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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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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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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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.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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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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Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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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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