The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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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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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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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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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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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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As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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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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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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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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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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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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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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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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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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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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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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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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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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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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