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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.

Indira Gandhi

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
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
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blessing Children Investment Religious
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
INDIRA GANDHI

Human Inspirational Leadership Life Progress
In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
INDIRA GANDHI

Community Understand Yourself
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHI

Courage Opportunity Perseverance
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
INDIRA GANDHI

Beginning Deep End Reality
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
There is not love where there is no will.
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Love Willing
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
INDIRA GANDHI

Life Myself One Liner Process
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
INDIRA GANDHI

Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Future Scare
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Eyes Mother Oppression Rage Woman
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning 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
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
INDIRA GANDHI

People Politics Remember Right Rights

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