We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
INDIRA GANDHIFor me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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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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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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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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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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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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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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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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There is not love where there is no will.
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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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