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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

Indira Gandhi

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Liberty Men Theory Woman
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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Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help
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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Cancer Father Live People
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Art Politics Power
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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Age Class Education Force Liberty
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Bravery Forgiveness History Virtue
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Needs Popularity Right Wise
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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Experiences Greatness Maturity Vision
That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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Action Necessary Philosophy
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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Blessing Children Investment Religious
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Company Life Need Young
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Believe Hope Life Purpose
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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Democracy River Women
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
INDIRA GANDHI

Freedom Nation Strength
It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
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Feeling Future Social Weakness Young
I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Patriot Proud Understand
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
INDIRA GANDHI

Faith Inspirational Summer
In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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Change Defeat Mindset Victory World
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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Job Mom Perfection
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHI

Freedom Inspirational Learning Women
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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Defeat Pain Victory
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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Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right
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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Change Poverty
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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Eyes Mother Oppression Rage Woman
As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Easy Myself Time

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