You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHIYou must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHIThe purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
INDIRA GANDHIDifficulties can’t be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them. The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It’s all right to fight, yes, but only when it’s possible.
INDIRA GANDHIWomen sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
INDIRA GANDHILife is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
INDIRA GANDHIThat’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
INDIRA GANDHII 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.
INDIRA GANDHIOne must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
INDIRA GANDHIWe 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.
INDIRA GANDHIIt’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 GANDHIThe power to question is the basis of all human progress.
INDIRA GANDHIThere is not love where there is no will.
INDIRA GANDHILet’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
INDIRA GANDHIMy 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.
INDIRA GANDHIIn 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.
INDIRA GANDHIWithout courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
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