Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
INDIRA GANDHIYou must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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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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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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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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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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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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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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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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