It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
INDIRA GANDHIThe fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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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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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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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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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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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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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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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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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