My father was a saint. I’m not.
INDIRA GANDHIPolitics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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There is not love where there is no will.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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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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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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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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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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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
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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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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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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