It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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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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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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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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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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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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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.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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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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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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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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