Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
INDIRA GANDHILet’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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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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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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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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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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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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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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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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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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