There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
INDIRA GANDHIwhat is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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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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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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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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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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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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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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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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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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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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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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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 don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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