When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHINever forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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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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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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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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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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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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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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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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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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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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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.
INDIRA GANDHI