How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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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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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of 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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There is not love where there is no will.
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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