The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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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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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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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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Without 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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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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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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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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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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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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Difficulties 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.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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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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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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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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