It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
INDIRA GANDHII 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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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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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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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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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.
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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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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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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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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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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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