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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.

Indira Gandhi

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
INDIRA GANDHI

Company Life Need Young
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
INDIRA GANDHI

Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
INDIRA GANDHI

People Politics Remember Right Rights
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
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blessing Children Investment Religious
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
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHI

Democracy River Women
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHI

Fall In Love Myself
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
INDIRA GANDHI

Human Inspirational Leadership Life Progress
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
INDIRA GANDHI

Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Different Intellectual Mind Philosophy Practice
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ideas Myself
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Age Class Education Force Liberty
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
Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
INDIRA GANDHI

Deep Forget Silence

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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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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