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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

Indira Gandhi

I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Myself Talk
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
INDIRA GANDHI

Liberty Men Theory Woman
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Different Intellectual Mind Philosophy Practice
When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHI

Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
INDIRA GANDHI

Selfish Young
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
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
INDIRA GANDHI

Art Politics Power
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
INDIRA GANDHI

Born Control
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ourselves Patriot Starve
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
INDIRA GANDHI

People Politics Remember Right Rights
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
INDIRA GANDHI

Needs Popularity Right Wise
In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
INDIRA GANDHI

Community Understand Yourself
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Mom Perfection
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Growth Peace People Poor Prosperity Rich
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

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