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The 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.

Indira Gandhi

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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Cure Injustice Story
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
INDIRA GANDHI

Game Politics
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHI

Democracy River Women
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capability Faith Oneself
I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
INDIRA GANDHI

Danger Risk Thinking
Ability is not always gauged by examination.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ability Examination
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
INDIRA GANDHI

Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
INDIRA GANDHI

Danger Myself Thinking
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blood Death Life People Strength
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ideas Myself
It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Mother Personality
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
INDIRA GANDHI

Born Control
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Age Beginning Myself Travel
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHI

Unity World
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capacity Enemy Liberty Men Personality
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset

The 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.

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