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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

Indira Gandhi

I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
INDIRA GANDHI

Children Understand Victim Woman
When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHI

Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
INDIRA GANDHI

Enemy Ultimate
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
INDIRA GANDHI

Life Myself One Liner Process
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
INDIRA GANDHI

Freedom Nation Strength
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHI

Unity World
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
INDIRA GANDHI

People Politics Remember Right Rights
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

Cure Injustice Story
I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
INDIRA GANDHI

Cancer Father Live People
In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
INDIRA GANDHI

Community Understand Yourself
Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
INDIRA GANDHI

Deep Forget Silence
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
INDIRA GANDHI

Human Inspirational Leadership Life Progress
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Future Scare
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
INDIRA GANDHI

Desire Function Politics
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Developing Helping Nations
As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset

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