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

Indira Gandhi

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

Community Understand Yourself
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
INDIRA GANDHI

Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
INDIRA GANDHI

Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help
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
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
INDIRA GANDHI

Change Design Pioneers Rebel
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning Myself
Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
INDIRA GANDHI

One Liner Popularity Quality
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
INDIRA GANDHI

Believe Hope Life Purpose
As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
INDIRA GANDHI

Believe Nation
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHI

Freedom Inspirational Learning Women
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Feeling Future Social Weakness Young
Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
INDIRA GANDHI

Death Fight Mother Time
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Future Scare
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
INDIRA GANDHI

Defeat Pain Victory
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
INDIRA GANDHI

Desire Function Politics
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

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