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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

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
INDIRA GANDHI

Liberty Men Theory Woman
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Born Control
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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Growth Peace People Poor Prosperity Rich
That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
INDIRA GANDHI

Action Necessary Philosophy
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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Cancer Father Live People
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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Enemy Ultimate
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Game Politics
I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
INDIRA GANDHI

Danger Risk Thinking
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
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.
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Father Mother Personality
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Needs Popularity Right Wise
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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Capacity Enemy Liberty Men Personality
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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Difficult Easy Myself Time
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Company Life Need Young
Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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Empowerment Listening True Woman
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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Ourselves Patriot Starve
When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
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.
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Birth Control Mean Men
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Easy Worth
Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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One Liner Popularity Quality
Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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Brave One Liner Virtue
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Believe Hope Life Purpose
As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
INDIRA GANDHI

Believe Nation
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
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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Death Life Philosophy Yourself
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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Faith Inspirational Summer
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Beginning Deep End Reality

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