I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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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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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 future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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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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Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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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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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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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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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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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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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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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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