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.
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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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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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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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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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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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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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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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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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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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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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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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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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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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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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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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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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Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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