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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.

Indira Gandhi

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
INDIRA GANDHI

Danger Risk Thinking
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Developing Helping Nations
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Eyes Mother Oppression Rage Woman
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
INDIRA GANDHI

Freedom Nation Strength
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Mom Perfection
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHI

Fall In Love Myself
Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
INDIRA GANDHI

One Liner Popularity Quality
I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Myself Talk
Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
INDIRA GANDHI

Forget Goddess Strength
I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blood Death Life People Strength
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Evil Existance Justice Struggle
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
INDIRA GANDHI

Needs Popularity Right Wise
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
INDIRA GANDHI

Liberty Men Theory Woman
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
INDIRA GANDHI

Enemy Ultimate
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Death Life Philosophy Yourself
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
INDIRA GANDHI

Desire Function Politics

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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