The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
INDIRA GANDHIRebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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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 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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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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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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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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