When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
INDIRA GANDHIin today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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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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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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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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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.
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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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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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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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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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