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 GANDHIMy theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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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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There is not love where there is no will.
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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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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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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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