When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
INDIRA GANDHIThe 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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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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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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Even 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.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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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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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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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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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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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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