I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
INDIRA GANDHIIt’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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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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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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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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.
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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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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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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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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 don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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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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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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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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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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