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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.

Indira Gandhi

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
INDIRA GANDHI

Believe Hope Life Purpose
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Different Intellectual Mind Philosophy Practice
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
INDIRA GANDHI

Art Politics Power
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHI

Fall In Love Myself
The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
INDIRA GANDHI

Birth Control Mean Men
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning Myself
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Age Beginning Myself Travel
That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
INDIRA GANDHI

Action Necessary Philosophy
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
INDIRA GANDHI

Company Life Need Young
Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
INDIRA GANDHI

Country Freedom
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Evil Existance Justice Struggle
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Cancer Father Live People
You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
INDIRA GANDHI

Country Defeat Democracy Military
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
INDIRA GANDHI

Defeat Pain Victory
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
INDIRA GANDHI

Money Motivational Oneself
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 GANDHI

Father Mother Personality
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
INDIRA GANDHI

Easy Worth
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
INDIRA GANDHI

Earth Peace
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHI

Freedom Inspirational Learning Women
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
INDIRA GANDHI

Beginning Deep End Reality
My father was a saint. I’m not.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Saint
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
INDIRA GANDHI

Needs Popularity Right Wise
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHI

Unity World
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset
Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
INDIRA GANDHI

Forget Goddess Strength
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
INDIRA GANDHI

Age Class Education Force Liberty
in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
INDIRA GANDHI

Country Independent Philosophy World

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