In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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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 democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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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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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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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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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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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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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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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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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