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.
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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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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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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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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