One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
INDIRA GANDHILife is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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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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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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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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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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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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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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