There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
INDIRA GANDHITo become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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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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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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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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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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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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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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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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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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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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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