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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Indira Gandhi

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
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.
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Cure Injustice Story
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Needs Popularity Right Wise
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.
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Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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Empowerment Listening True Woman
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics
For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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Change Poverty
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
INDIRA GANDHI

Freedom Nation Strength
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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Democracy River Women
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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Enemy Ultimate
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
INDIRA GANDHI

Human Inspirational Leadership Life Progress
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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Country Defeat Democracy Military
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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Blood Development Growth Independence Nation Patriot Strong
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

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

Community Understand Yourself

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