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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.

Indira Gandhi

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHI

Democracy River Women
As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
INDIRA GANDHI

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

Action Necessary Philosophy
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Achievement Beginning Dream End Thinking Yourself
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Change Defeat Mindset Victory World
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Life Play Upset Victim
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
INDIRA GANDHI

Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
Without 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 GANDHI

Growth Peace People Poor Prosperity Rich
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHI

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

People Politics Remember Right Rights
I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Myself Talk
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Different Intellectual Mind Philosophy Practice
I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
INDIRA GANDHI

Children Understand Victim Woman
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
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ideas Myself
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right

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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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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