When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHIMy father was a saint. I’m not.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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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 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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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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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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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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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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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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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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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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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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