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.
INDIRA GANDHII think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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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 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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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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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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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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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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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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It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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