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.
INDIRA GANDHILife is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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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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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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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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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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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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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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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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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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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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