When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
INDIRA GANDHIThere is not love where there is no will.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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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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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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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.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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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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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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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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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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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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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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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
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I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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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.
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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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I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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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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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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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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