Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHIMartyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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The 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.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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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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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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Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
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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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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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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.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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