In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
INDIRA GANDHIMartyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Difficulties can’t be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them. The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It’s all right to fight, yes, but only when it’s possible.
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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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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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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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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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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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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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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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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
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