Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
INDIRA GANDHILife is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
INDIRA GANDHIAs 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.
INDIRA GANDHITo become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
INDIRA GANDHIWe would rather starve than sell our national honor.
INDIRA GANDHII learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHIEducation 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 GANDHIIt’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 GANDHIThere is not love where there is no will.
INDIRA GANDHIAbility is not always gauged by examination.
INDIRA GANDHIForgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
INDIRA GANDHIThe question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
INDIRA GANDHIWe 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 GANDHIThere are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
INDIRA GANDHIA nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
INDIRA GANDHIWithout 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.
INDIRA GANDHITo 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.
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