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.
INDIRA GANDHIWhen it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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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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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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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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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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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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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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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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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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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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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