Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
INDIRA GANDHIAs my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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There is not love where there is no will.
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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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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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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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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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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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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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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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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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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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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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