You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHIAll my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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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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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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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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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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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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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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