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.
INDIRA GANDHINothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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.
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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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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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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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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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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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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 fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
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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.
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