You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHIWomen sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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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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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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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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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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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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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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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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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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