How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHIYou don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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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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You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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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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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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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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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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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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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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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.
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