To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
INDIRA GANDHIJust when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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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.
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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.
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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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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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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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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.
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I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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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.
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