You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHIThe immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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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.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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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.
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I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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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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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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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.
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