Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
INDIRA GANDHII 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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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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Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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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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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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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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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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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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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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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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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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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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