There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
INDIRA GANDHIPopularity is not a gurantee of quality.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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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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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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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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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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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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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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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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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 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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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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