I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHIUntil 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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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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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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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.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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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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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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