The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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 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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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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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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As 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.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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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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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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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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