For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
INDIRA GANDHIPopularity is not a gurantee of quality.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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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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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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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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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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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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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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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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