I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHIIn all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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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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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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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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.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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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.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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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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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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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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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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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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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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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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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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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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