The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
INDIRA GANDHII’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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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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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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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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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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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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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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