I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHII’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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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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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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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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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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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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It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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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.
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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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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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There is not love where there is no will.
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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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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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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.
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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 fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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